“My Hands on the Turbine”: Joan Didion, Water, and Control

Water – California water – is a recurring presence in Joan Didion’s work, both her fiction and nonfiction; it is, indeed, an “obsession. In this article I argue that water control – as epitomized by the Hoover Dam and California water history – has its counterpart in control over writing, the total...

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Main Author: Cinzia Scarpino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona 2022-06-01
Series:Iperstoria
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Online Access:https://iperstoria.it/article/view/1163