California and the Melancholic American Identity in Joan Didion's Novels

California and the Melancholic American Identity in Joan Didion's Novels

Exiled from Eden

Nowak McNeice, Katarzyna

Taylor & Francis Ltd

12/2018

202

Dura

Inglês

9781138370418

15 a 20 dias

453

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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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Donner Party;Canyon Live Oak;American Literature;Demarcation Line;Literary History;Wagon Train;Critical theory;Homeless Generation;Critical Studies;Run River;Western American Literature;Ethical Residue;California;Clean Slate;California Literature;Californian Character;Landscape studies;Racial Melancholia;Autobiography;Melancholic Processes;Memoir;Ekphrastic Indifference;Journalism;Martha's Death;Melancholia;Split Rail Fence;Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice;Rail Fence;Californian history;Lily's Father;ethical values;Californian identity;Didion's fiction