序 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 附錄一 附錄二 后記 Index