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product_id: 41919680
title: "Black Girl/White Girl Paperback – May 29, 2007"
brand: "joyce carol oates"
price: "¥6172"
currency: JPY
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 16
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# Black Girl/White Girl Paperback – May 29, 2007

**Brand:** joyce carol oates
**Price:** ¥6172
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Black Girl/White Girl Paperback – May 29, 2007 by joyce carol oates
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## Customer Reviews

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    Black Girl/White Girl is a beautifully written exploration of the complexities of race
  

*by P***L on Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2015*

Black Girl/White Girl is a beautifully written exploration of the complexities of race, family and the impact of social pressure. A privileged white girl, Genna, made by her radical lawyer father to feel deeply guilty about her privileges, tries to relate to her room-mate Minette, an emotionally disturbed daughter of a prominent black preacher. Both struggle to adjust to the harsh social norms of an elite college. Both struggle to deal with domineering fathers. Genna also has to deal with her beautiful, insecure, pill-popping mother enraged by her husband's abandonment. Joyce Carol Oates avoids the cliches of much writing about relations between black and white in America. She shows us the complex impact of American racism and how difficult it is to unravel feelings about race within one's own self. Rejection of overt racism becomes an inverted kind of racial bias that for Genna leads to her inability to deal effectively with her difficult roommate. Oates evokes a time in America when racial and social hatred dominated public life and when supposedly "good" people were willing to kill for their beliefs. Despite desperate, self-denigrating efforts, Genna fails to help Minette. She acquires new levels of guilt when her roommate dies in a fire and she inadvertently betrays her father to a life in prison. One of the few books I have read that I knew immediately I would have to read again.

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    Black Girl/White Girl
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2015*

This book by Joyce Carol Oates is quite different than any of her other books I've read. A girl from a very dysfunctional family narrates the story.  She has quite an imagination and sees relationship with her Black college roommate far more meaningful than her roommate.  She carries her feelings for her roommate into her adulthood, long after the roommate dies, thinking of her as a sister who died at age 18.  I found the book a little strange and had a difficult time relating to the tale.The sexual and violent content is from the narrators childhood memory.Oates went way out with her imagination for this story line.  I would hesitate to recommend it heartily though it was thought provoking to some extent.

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    Tightly woven tale, another Oates' gem
  

*by C***Y on Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2015*

I was mesmerized by the story and the way Oates' once again captures us from the point of view of a young women affected by her family's function, or dysfunction.  I couldn't put this book down.  And, at the end, the reader is satisfied with the conclusions, explanations, doubts, shifts, and emotions evoked in this really tragic tale.

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