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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Joan Didion"”.
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The stories we tell ourselves: Joan Didion on the romantic fantasies of reality
… attempts to showcase the ways in which Joan Didion employs metaphoric prose to expose the “romantic fantasies” in the creative nonfiction works of Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) and The Year of Magical Thinking (2005). I propose that a reading of these romantic fantasies is dependent …
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The use of narrative devices in the fiction and non-fiction of Joan Didion
… in the fiction and collected non-fiction of Joan Didion in order to evaluate her abilities as a novelist and as a New journalist. The works considered include the novels Run River, Play It As It Lays, and The Book of Common Prayer; the non-fiction works include Slouching Towards Bethlehem, …
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Losers in the isthmus: Central America in American literature
… Bret Harte, Richard Harding Davis, Paul Bowles, Joan Didion, Robert Stone, and others, have been writing and rewriting the same novel about Americans in Central America. How and why this is so is not so much a matter of a literary tradition as it is of the relationships between politics, history, …
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Demetrius Johnson and the Weep of the World: A Novel
… upon the work of scholar Marta Bladek and writer Joan Didion, I render grief as a fantasy setting on macro and micro levels. First, grief’s spatiality is rendered as the larger invented fantasy world of the novel, the World In Between, a place where bereaved people are stuck in time, space, and …
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Autobiographical Poetry to Plays: Taking Memoir to a Theatrical Level
… memoir Fun Home, A Family Tragicomic, and Joan Didion, who wrote The Year of Magical Thinking. Bechdel’s text focuses primarily on her homosexuality and her father’s closeted sexuality, which led to his suicide. Didion’s novel is an account of her grieving the sudden death of her husband, …
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Writing insurrection: U.S. literature and the politics of Latin American intervention, 1898 to 2010
… in Nicaragua in 1979, journalists such as Joan Didion, the poet Carolyn Forché, and political novelist Robert Stone represent atrocity in Central America as evidence of the failure of U.S. neoliberal ideals. Resisting the popular conception of the region as the tropical breeding ground for …
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“Man’s Country. Out Where the West Begins”: Women, the American Dream, and the West in Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem
… paper examines the feminist perspective in Didion’s collection of essays <em>Slouching Towards </em><em>Bethlehem</em><em>.</em> Throughout the text, Didion looks closely at the West and the changing social climate which surrounds her. Her essays chronicle women struggling to find a balance …