The Borders between Short Story and Novel: The Example of Joyce Carol Oates’s “Curly Red” and My Life as a Rat

The Borders between Short Story and Novel: The Example of Joyce Carol Oates’s “Curly Red” and My Life as a Rat

Joyce Carol Oates first published the short story “Curly Red” in Harper’s Magazine in 2003, and soon reprinted it in the collection I Am No One You Know in 2004. The plight of the young main character, who was expelled from her family after speaking out about a crime committed by her brothers, was d...

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Auteur principal: Heude, Émilie
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Publié: Journal of the Short Story in English 2024
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:jsse_4607 en https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/4607 2024-12-17T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/12y7h https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ The Borders between Short Story and Novel: The Example of Joyce Carol Oates’s “Curly Red” and My Life as a Rat Journal of the Short Story in English Presses universitaires de Rennes info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1969-6108 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0294-0442 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/jsse Heude, Émilie Joyce Carol Oates first published the short story “Curly Red” in Harper’s Magazine in 2003, and soon reprinted it in the collection I Am No One You Know in 2004. The plight of the young main character, who was expelled from her family after speaking out about a crime committed by her brothers, was developed years later into a novel entitled My Life as a Rat (2019). This article examines the way Oates’s lifelong endeavor to bear witness finds a striking expression in the development of this story, which is centered around the moral dilemma between family allegiances and ethical obligations to tell the truth, with the risk, for the main character, of becoming the destructive outsider in the family structure. Through the expansion from a short story to a novel, the writer explores the dynamics between geographical and psychological borders as the girl bears the scars of the transgression and the rejection that ensued. La nouvelle de Joyce Carol Oates intitulée “Curly Red” a d’abord été publiée dans Harper’s Magazine en 2003, avant d’être incluse dans le recueil I Am No One You Know en 2004. L’expérience traumatisante du personnage principal, qui a été bannie de sa famille après avoir dénoncé un crime commis par ses frères, fut reprise des années plus tard dans le roman My Life as a Rat (2019). Cet article examine la manière dont l’engagement de Oates à témoigner trouve une expression frappante dans le développement de cette histoire, centrée autour du tiraillement moral entre les allégeances de famille et les obligations éthiques de dire la vérité au risque de devenir, dans le cas du personnage principal, l’élément destructeur au sein de la structure familiale. À travers le processus d’expansion de la nouvelle au roman, l’autrice explore les dynamiques entre frontières géographiques et psychologiques alors que la jeune fille porte les cicatrices de la transgression et du rejet qui s’en est suivi.
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description Joyce Carol Oates first published the short story “Curly Red” in Harper’s Magazine in 2003, and soon reprinted it in the collection I Am No One You Know in 2004. The plight of the young main character, who was expelled from her family after speaking out about a crime committed by her brothers, was developed years later into a novel entitled My Life as a Rat (2019). This article examines the way Oates’s lifelong endeavor to bear witness finds a striking expression in the development of this story, which is centered around the moral dilemma between family allegiances and ethical obligations to tell the truth, with the risk, for the main character, of becoming the destructive outsider in the family structure. Through the expansion from a short story to a novel, the writer explores the dynamics between geographical and psychological borders as the girl bears the scars of the transgression and the rejection that ensued.
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title_full The Borders between Short Story and Novel: The Example of Joyce Carol Oates’s “Curly Red” and My Life as a Rat
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