The book traces the progress of the way Californian identity is portrayed in Joan Didion's novels.
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Autorenporträt
Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice is a Conex-Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. She obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Wroclaw, Poland, in 2005. She is the author of Melancholic Travelers: Autonomy, Hybridity and the Maternal (Peter Lang, 2007) and co-editor of Interiors: Interiority/ Exteriority in Literary and Cultural Discourse (Cambridge Scholars, 2010) and A Dark California: Essays on Dystopian Depictions in Popular Culture (McFarland, 2017), as well as essays, reviews and translations.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part 1: Joan Didion, the Native Daughter Didion the Sacramentan, Californian, Westerner Critical Reception Joan Didion's Melancholy California Part 2: Californian Losses and Melancholia The Myth of an Empty Frontier How Joan Didion Expelled Herself from Paradise Racial Melancholia and the Emergence of Conscience The Social Dimension of Melancholia Chapter 1: The Loss of Nature Problems with American Nature Problems with The Garden of Eden The Paradoxes of Nature Writing to Remember and to Redeem Pioneers and Ancestors Purification through Fire The Howling Wilderness: The California Desert Turner's and Didion's Frontierless West Chapter 2: The Loss of History Manifest Destiny and Its Fulfillment in California Freedom from History History, Nature, and Hysteria "A History of Accidents" "You Can't Call This a Bad Place" The Freeway Experience Escaping the Meaninglessness of History Chapter 3: The Loss of Ethics The Emergence of Conscience The Melancholic Donner Party Desire and the Wagon-Train Morality Betrayals of Familial Loyalty Life as Gambling Parental Influence Parental Transgressions Chapter 4: The Loss of Language Looking Awry at Conscience and Loss The Language of Melancholia The Limits of Language Estrangement from the Body Translation and Betrayal The Modern Pioneers and the Loss of Memory The Language of Democracy Conclusion
Introduction Part 1: Joan Didion, the Native Daughter Didion the Sacramentan, Californian, Westerner Critical Reception Joan Didion's Melancholy California Part 2: Californian Losses and Melancholia The Myth of an Empty Frontier How Joan Didion Expelled Herself from Paradise Racial Melancholia and the Emergence of Conscience The Social Dimension of Melancholia Chapter 1: The Loss of Nature Problems with American Nature Problems with The Garden of Eden The Paradoxes of Nature Writing to Remember and to Redeem Pioneers and Ancestors Purification through Fire The Howling Wilderness: The California Desert Turner's and Didion's Frontierless West Chapter 2: The Loss of History Manifest Destiny and Its Fulfillment in California Freedom from History History, Nature, and Hysteria "A History of Accidents" "You Can't Call This a Bad Place" The Freeway Experience Escaping the Meaninglessness of History Chapter 3: The Loss of Ethics The Emergence of Conscience The Melancholic Donner Party Desire and the Wagon-Train Morality Betrayals of Familial Loyalty Life as Gambling Parental Influence Parental Transgressions Chapter 4: The Loss of Language Looking Awry at Conscience and Loss The Language of Melancholia The Limits of Language Estrangement from the Body Translation and Betrayal The Modern Pioneers and the Loss of Memory The Language of Democracy Conclusion
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