Victory over Japan (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ellen Gilchrist
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Girls, Children, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Gender roles, 1940’s, World War II, Midwest, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Oppression, Fathers, Divorce, Rabies, Pornography
- Locales: Seymour, IN
Form and Content
The stories in Victory over Japan explore the conflicts facing women in post-World War II America, particularly in the South. In this, Ellen Gilchrist’s second collection of short stories, the author revives two of the characters introduced in her first collection, In the Land of Dreamy Dreams (1981): Rhoda Manning, the only major character in that collection to appear in more than one story but whose personality was repeated in several of the other stories’ protagonists; and Nora Jane Whittington.
In the Rhoda section, the first...
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