Introduction: Why Didion? Why the ‘Ethics of Memory’?
1. ‘Earthquake Weather’: Didion’s Universe
2. Memories are what you no longer want to remember: Witnessing, Testifying, and Grieving
3. The Norm of Comprehensiveness: Nostalgia, Forgiveness, and Critical Fabulation
4. Political Memory and Memory as Politics: Critical Political Realism and Neoliberal Life Narrative
Conclusion: Joan Didion and the Future: Philosophical Unsettlement and the Right to be Forgotten
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