The White Album (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Joan Didion
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Subjects: 1960’s
Form and Content
An examination of American culture in the late 1960’s, Joan Didion’s second collection of essays takes as its title the popularly accepted name of the Beatles’ untitled double record album, an album that many argue was the defining or capstone musical production of that decade. The metaphor of album also serves to describe the rhetorical structure of the title essay, one of Didion’s best-known works. A number of the essays in this volume are structured as collages or as series of vignettes loosely strung together thematically or associatively.
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