An Analysis of Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang from the Perspective of Foucault’s Heterotopias Theory

Abstract

Oates has regarded the United States as the spaces of intense confl ict among various forces in American society, which are often heterogeneous, governed by forces such as sexuality, male power, religion, hierarchy, and racial discrimination. At the same time, the heterotopias in Foxfi re: Confessions of a Girl Gang expresses the political, cultural, and social factors we have not paid attention to in routine spaces, emphasizing the problems of modern life and the issue of women’s survival in society, where women are oppressed by men and are in a state of silence. Under the guidance of Foucault’s Heterotopias theory, this article intends to analyze the survival predicament and the revolt of women through heterotopias space by representing the oppression of power in heterotopia spaces and the revolt through heterotopias of compensation.