![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Notes on the South” sees Didion traveling through the Gulf South states in order, she writes, to understand California and America more clearly. South and West is split into two sections. Didion uses California and the South as a means for understanding herself It’s just that Didion’s morality is aesthetic. Didion’s notes are overwhelmingly focused on her own aesthetic sensibility, just as Harrison charged, but they are not amoral. In the parlance of 2017, Harrison thinks Didion needs to check her privilege.Īs I read Didion’s new/old book - South and West: From a Notebook, which is a newly released reproduction of Didion’s notes for two unfinished essays, one from 1970 and the other from 1976 - Harrison’s critique kept popping into my mind. When she writes about the working classes or the nouveau riche, it is almost always with a faint sense of distaste for their poor taste, and rarely with an eye toward the systemic inequalities that separates her world from theirs. She argues that Didion is always writing about her own taste, which is the taste of an educated upper-class West Coast white woman: minimalist, but expensively so. Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-markįor Harrison, this aesthetic focus seems vaguely immoral. ![]()
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