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0-679-43332-5. OCLC. 57191802. Where I Was From is a 2003 book by Joan Didion. It concerns the history and culture of California, where Didion was born and spent much of her life. The book combines aspects of historical writing, journalism, and memoir to present a history of California as well as Didion's own experiences in that state.
- Joan Didion
- 2003
14. Sept. 2004 · Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons. Whether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or ...
Summary. Like much of Joan Didion’s best work, Where I Was From performs a precarious balancing act: It manages to be simultaneously deeply intimate and broadly political. The book is both a ...
1. Sept. 2003 · January 12, 2022. Joan Didion's Where I Was From is a reflection on her past life in California that will resonate with anyone who holds on to connections with the past. The state of California was founded by a rough-and-tumble collections of settlers who fought the Natives and took their land.
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Where I Was From Taschenbuch – 6. September 2004. A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America. In this moving and surprising book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history – and America’s. Where I Was From, in Didion's words, "represents an exploration into my own ...
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1981 wurde Joan Didion in die American Academy of Arts and Letters und 1989 in die American Academy of Arts and Sciences gewählt. Ab 2006 war sie gewähltes Mitglied der American Philosophical Society. [8] Didions Buch Where I Was From (2003) gilt als das Werk mit den stärksten biografischen Zügen.
Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to California’s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads ...
