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  1. California and the melancholic American identity in Joan Didion's novels
    exiled from Eden
    Author: Nowak-McNeice, Katarzyna
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge, London

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    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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  2. California and the melancholic American identity in Joan Didion's novels
    exiled from Eden
    Author: Nowak-McNeice, Katarzyna
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "California and the Melancholic American Identity in Joan Didion's Novels: Exiled from Eden focuses on the concept of Californian identity in the fiction of Joan Didion. This identity is understood as melancholic, in the sense that the critics... more

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    "California and the Melancholic American Identity in Joan Didion's Novels: Exiled from Eden focuses on the concept of Californian identity in the fiction of Joan Didion. This identity is understood as melancholic, in the sense that the critics following the tradition of both Sigmund Freud and Walter Benjamin use the word. The book traces the progress of the way Californian identity is portrayed in Joan Didion's novels, starting with the first two in which California plays the central role, Run River and Play It As It Lays, through A Book of Common Prayer to Democracy and The Last Thing He Wanted, where California functions only as a distant point of reference, receding to the background of Didion's interests. Curiously enough, Didion presents Californian history as a history of white settlement, disregarding whole chapters of the history of the region in which the Californios and Native Americans, among other groups, played a crucial role: it is this reticence that the monograph sees as the main problem of Didion's fiction and presents it as the silent center of gravity in Didion's oeuvre. The monograph proposes to see the melancholy expressed by Didion's fiction organized into four losses: of Nature, History, Ethics, and Language; around which the main analytical chapters are constructed. What remains unrepresented and silenced comes back to haunt Didion's fiction, and it results in a melancholic portrayal of California and its identity - which is the central theme this monograph addresses"--...

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780429025631; 0429025637; 9780429655319; 0429655312; 9780429657757; 0429657757; 9780429652875; 0429652879
    Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
    Subjects: Melancholy in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Other subjects: Didion, Joan
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  3. California and the melancholic American identity in Joan Didion's novels :
    exiled from Eden /
    Author: Nowak-McNeice, Katarzyna,
    Published: 2019.
    Publisher:  Routledge,, London :

    Location:
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780429025631; 9780429655319; 0429655312; 9780429657757; 0429657757; 9780429652875; 0429652879; 0429025637
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    Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
    Subjects: Melancholy in literature; National characteristics, American, in literature; Literature; Roman.; Kalifornien <Motiv>; USA <Motiv>; Kulturelle Identität <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Didion, Joan / Criticism and interpretation; Didion, Joan; Didion, Joan (1934-2021.)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 201 Seiten).
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