当代女作家乔伊斯·卡罗尔·欧茨(Joyce Carol Oates,1938—)凭借着一系列风格多样、手法各异的作品在美国文坛上享有“女福克纳”的美誉。其中“女”不仅表明了作者的性别身份,同时欧茨在作品中也倾注了大量对于女性人物的关注。而“福克纳”则指的是欧茨能够如威廉·福克纳反映美国南方社会一般,在作品中使美国当代社会的众生相跃然纸上,在对美国各阶层(尤其是中下层)民众的生活困境与思 Joyce Carol Oates (1938-), a contemporary woman writer, enjoys a reputation as “Faulkner” in the American literary world through a variety of different styles and styles. Among them, “female” not only shows the author’s gender identity, but also Oz in the works also devoted a lot of attention for female characters. And “Faulkner” refers to the ability of Oughts, as William Faulkner, to reflect the general southern American society, to make the living beings of the contemporary American society circulate in the works, People’s life dilemma and thinking