Anaïs Nin, fictionality and femininity : playing a thousand roles
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Anaïs Nin, fictionality and femininity : playing a thousand roles
（Oxford English monographs）
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]- 219) and index
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Description
Helen Tookey presents a new study of Anais Nin (1903-77), focusing both on the cultural and historical contexts in which her work was produced and received, and on the different versions of Nin herself - as a modernist, a woman writer, a public (and controversial) figure in the women's liberation movement, and as a set of conflicting and often extreme representations of femininity. The author shows how contextual feminist approaches shed light on Nin (who
moved from Paris modernism of the 1930s to US second-wave feminism of the 1970s), and how this sheds light on key issues and conflicts within feminist thinking since the 1970s, particularly questions of identity, femininity, and psychoanalysis. Anais Nin: Fictionality and Femininity provides new readings of
Nin through contemporary feminist approaches, using Nin to make an intervention into critical debates around modernism, feminism, and psychoanalysis, writing and identity, fictionality and femininity.
Table of Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
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