Women and Violence in the Stories of Raymond Carver
This article examines the role of women characters in the stories of Raymond Carver who are involved in violent passages either as victims, witnesses, or perpetrators. The first and middle sections provide an overview of Carver’s development of the motif of violence from his formative years through...
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| פורמט: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| שפה: | Anglais |
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2006
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| גישה מקוונת: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| סיכום: | This article examines the role of women characters in the stories of Raymond Carver who are involved in violent passages either as victims, witnesses, or perpetrators. The first and middle sections provide an overview of Carver’s development of the motif of violence from his formative years through his minimalist and later phases. The final section concentrates on an analysis of one story, “So Much Water, So Close to Home,” and how it reflects the specific social trauma of the rape and murder of young women in Carver’s native Washington State by serial killers in the 1970s and 1980s. In considering passages from different periods where Carver yokes the representation of women to violence, the aim is to explore how his idiomatic rendering of a violent world can be linked to the larger context of women’s status in |
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