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'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' Joyce Carol Oates (Women Writers : Texts and Contexts)

Elaine Showalter

Joyce Carol Oates’s prize-winning story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” takes up troubling subjects that continue to occupy her in her fiction: the romantic longings and limited options of adolescent women; the tensions between mothers and daughters; the sexual victimization of women; an...

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It was mentioned as being inspired by the Pied Piper of Tucson case and was described as a great read, particularly due to its excellent writing.

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I'm an English professor at LSU and just read, where are you going? Where have you been? Which is a short story by Joyce, Joyce Carol Oates.

— Episode: 245 - Time Is Becoming A Serious Problem

Episode: 245 - Time Is Becoming A Serious Problem

It was mentioned as being inspired by the Pied Piper of Tucson case and was described as a great read, particularly due to its excellent writing.

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I'm an English professor at LSU and just read, where are you going? Where have you been? Which is a short story by Joyce, Joyce Carol Oates.

I highly recommend, especially if you like great writing the Joyce Carol Oates short story, where are you going? Where have you been?

which she basically read about these cases and ended up writing a fictionalized version.

But like, that's what that short story is about. And it's award winning.

And that is the basically the very rudimentary story of the Pied Piper of Tucson.

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