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Contemporary Women's Writing Advance Access published online on June 12, 2009
Contemporary Women's Writing, doi:10.1093/cww/vpp002
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Lost Girls: The Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates

Tanya Horeck

Anglia Ruskin University, UK tanya.horeck@anglia.ac.uk

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Stories of lost girls abound in popular culture. Recently, the case of the four-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann, who went missing in 2007, has been given massive media coverage, with the public hungry for each new scrap of information about her disappearance and possible recovery. Reports of potential sightings have emerged at regular intervals. What is new about the McCann case is the extraordinary levels of global media attention it has attracted, with pictures of the missing Madeleine filtered through every means of communication imaginable. An official website has been set up to help find her, and in the first months after her disappearance endless chain emails circulated asking us to commit her face to memory and to keep the search alive.

Something more than lurid fascination would appear to be behind our interest in such cases. According to Mark Seltzer, the obsessive focus on "true crime"1 has come to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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