The Critical Response to Joan Didion

Joan Didion is a major contemporary American novelist and journalist whose works have popular appeal and are widely studied from a variety of literary perspectives as well as for philosophical psychological and political insights into the times and topics with which they deal. This volume collects an extensive range of critical commentary both reviews and scholarly examinations including newly commissioned essays covering the entire canon: four works of fiction and five of nonfiction published between 1963 and 1992. Individually the selections explore diverse critical approaches to Didion''s canon; collectively they establish a critical map that will serve as a guide to future scholarship. A substantive introduction assesses the canon and the critical reaction to it. Other features include a brief chronology of Didion''s accomplishments a bibliography and contributors and subject indexes.