TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cinzia Scarpino
AU  - Eva-Sabine Zehelein
PY  - 2023
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631895719
TI  - Joan Didion: Life and/with/through Words
DO  - 10.3726/b21411
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1300403
N2  - Joan Didion (1934-2021) was one of America’s most iconic writers and intellectuals. Her reportage and essays, as well as her novels and memoirs provide sharp comments on a variety of facets of American culture and politics between the 1960s and the 2010s. Employing the complex relationship between life and words as guiding framework, the volume offers fresh approaches to Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Play It As It Lays, The White Album, Democracy and Where I Was From, as well as takes on her final publications The Year of Magical Thinking, Blue Nights and Let Me Tell You What I Mean.  The collection also features photographs of Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, with an accompanying essay by artist and photographer Nancy Ellison, plus a contribution by literary biographer Tracy Daugherty.
KW  - Autobiography, memoir, crossing-story, the West, NYC, abandonment, narrative opacity, storytelling, neoliberalism, reparative reading, New Journalism, Fiction, Non-Fiction
LA  - English
ER  -