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ANAIS NIN, FICTIONALITY AND FEMININITY
PLAYING A THOUSAND ROLES |
By: |
Helen Tookey |
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Hardback |

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ISBN 10: |
0199249830 |
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9780199249831 |
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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
16 January, 2003 |
Series: |
Oxford English Monographs |
Pages: |
240 |
Description: |
Helen Tookey examines the work of Anais Nin (1903-77) - and the different versions of Nin herself, as woman, writer, and iconic figure - through the lens of cultural and historical contexts. She focuses particularly on questions of identity and femininity, exploring how the self, for Nin, is constructed through narratives and performances of various kinds, and shedding light on key issues and conflicts within feminist thinking since the 1970s, particularlyquestions of identity, femininity, and psychoanalysis. |
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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. |
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2 halftones |
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UK |
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Oxford University Press |
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