“A good deal about California does not, on its own preferred terms, add up”: Joan Didion between Dawning Apocalypse and Retrogressive Utopia
Joan Didion’s depiction of the American West and California is colored by an idiosyncratic sensitivity to her surroundings, intertwined with a sentimental-retrogressive image of the nature, history, character, and meaning of the West as a cultural topos. Her New Journalism-like observations of Calif...
Main Author: | Eva-Sabine Zehelein |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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European Association for American Studies
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Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/9324 |
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