琼·狄第恩是于20世纪60年代步人美国文坛的。她在文学创作上成就斐然，在美国当代文学中地位显赫，是个出色的美国女作家。她在小说、非小说及剧本写作上都颇有成就，被誉为新新闻主义者、出色的文体家和才华横溢的后现代派小说家。

本书即是对狄第恩小说及非小说作品进行研究的结果。狄第恩作品中的多角度展现包括新新闻主义、女权主义和后现代主义。书中应用的指导理论有利奥塔德有关“叙事危机”及“语言游戏”的理论、埃莱娜。西苏的女权主义理论及其他后现代派写作技巧的理论等。本书把琼·狄第恩的作品放在后现代社会这一宏观背景下，分析了狄第恩对新新闻主义所作的贡献、其非小说作品中的道德关怀和政治关怀以及小说中的女权主义倾向。此外，她作品中的后现代派写作技巧和语言特色也是本书的研究内容。

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前言

Abbreviations of Joan Didion's Works

Acknowledgement

Introduction

Chapter One

Joan Didion: the Precursor of New Journalism

Chapter Two

Crisis of Narrative in American Writing

and Didion's Moral and Political Concerns

in Her Nonfiction

Crisis of Narrative

Didion's Moral Concern in Slouching

Towards Bethlehem

Things Are Falling Apart: The White A/bum

Didion's Political Concerns

Didion's International Political Concern as

Shown in Salvador and Miami

Didion's Domestic Political Concern as

Shown in Political Fictions

Chapter Three

Women's Victimization and "Didion's Women"

in language Games

The World Is Atomized

The Players of Language Games

SeW-regaining Processes

Chapter Four

Didion's Voice and Cultural Boundary Blurring

in Her Novels

The Blurring of High and Low Culture

The Voice of the Author in the Novel

Facts Meet Fiction

Chapter Five

Lexical Exhibition, Fragments and Minimalism

in Didion's Fiction and Nonfiction

Lexic al Exhition

Catalogue Structure

Syntactic Features

Figures of Speech

Repetition

Heteroglossia

Fragments

Minimalism

Conclusion

Works Cited

附录一

附录二

后记

Index