Mudwoman
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| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Psychological Horror |
| Published | March 13, 2012 |
| Publisher | Ecco |
Mudwoman is 2012 horror novel by Joyce Carol Oates. The novel is a psychological horror and campus novel, which follows the experience of a university president, M.R. Neukirchen, "haunted by her secret past as the child of a poor, mentally ill religious fanatic who tried to drown her in a riverside mudflat".[1]
Oates says that the novel started as a "dream vision" describing it as "I saw a woman sitting at a large table wearing inappropriate, very heavy makeup that had dried, like mud, and was darker than her skin."[1] Oates wrote the novel in response to the dream, and during a period that was hard for Oates: her husband died while she was drafting the novel.[1] Kevin Nance of the Washington Post describes these two influences as creating a deeply autobiographical novel.[1]
