Author(s)

Henry Yan ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Upper Canada College, Toronto, Canada

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ABSTRACT

Joan Didion's essays provide a deep dive into the world of 60's California. Beyond the nostalgic Hollywood glamour that has become the Californian image, Joan Didion reveals a whirlpool of disappointed dream chasers, such as Lucille Miller, the famous real-life reenactment of Double Indemnity. Through the essay, we come to the realization that perhaps Lucille Miller's story is not one about murder, but a story about class struggle.

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Henry Yan. The Flotsam of the New California. Art and Performance Letters (2021) 2: 52-54. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/artpl.2021.020511.

REFERENCES

[1] Didion, J. (2017). Slouching towards Bethlehem: Essays. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
[2] Meilus, L. K. (2014). Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream: Voice, Reality, and Imagination in Works by Joan Didion.
[3] McLaughlin, I. (2018). "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream": The Construction of the Golden Age Myth (s) in the Age of Ottoman Decline. The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing, 47(1), 4.
[4] Klinkenborg, V. (2005, January 29). Rereading the Landscape of an Essay by Joan Didion. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/29/opinion/rereading-the-landscape-of-an-essay-by-joan-didion.html.

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