Review of Joyce Carol Oates's Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense

Eric Anderson

doi:10.15867/331917.4.5

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Review of Joyce Carol Oates's Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense

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She’s previously described how this form of writing seems to be linked to a quintessential kind of American experience born out of the country’s largely puritan roots
Oates has previously rendered the lives of famous authors in her short fiction, most notably in her collection Wild Nights! ese tantalizing tales function both as a fictional homage to some of Oates’s primary influences as well as a way of reckoning with the problematic aspects of these authors’ ideas and beliefs. e story “Night-Gaunts” itself makes candid references to Lovecraft’s prejudice against Jews and people of color and grapples with the seeming contradiction of how “Lovecraft was unfailingly kind, patient, generous, unassuming, and gentlemanly in his personal relations; yet, in keeping with his Tory sensibility, an anti-Semite, racist, and allpurpose Aryan bigot.”

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Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.usfca.edu/jcostudies Part of the Literature in English, North America Commons. Review of Joyce Carol Oates's Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense (2018) "Review of Joyce Carol Oates's Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense," Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies: Vol 4 , Article 5.

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