Anais Nin and the Remaking of Self: Gender, Modernism, and Narrative Identity
by Diane Richard-Allerdyce
Category: Literary Criticism

Nin's struggle for success is presented as part of a long and complex history - that of women's effort to find a means of expressing female experiences in writing. For Nin, the struggle included an attempt to embody a "feminine mode of being" in her writing. Because Nin herself stressed the centrality of gender to her identity, her relation to women's studies and her treatment of gender provide the basis for understanding her work.