Anaïs Nin, fictionality and femininity
Subtitle: playing a thousand roles
By: Helen Tookey.
Series: Oxford English monographs
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation; Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Feminist fiction, American -- History and criticism; Role playing in literature; Femininity in literature; Women in literature
Description: "In this study, Helen Tookey provides new readings of Nin through contemporary feminist approaches, focusing on the cultural and historical contexts in which her work was produced and received. Key issues and conflicts within feminist thinking since the 1970s - particularly around questions of identity, femininity, and psychoanalysis - are illuminated by this detailed contextualization of Nin's work. Anais Nin: Fictionality and Femininity makes an intervention into critical debates around modernism, feminism, and psychoanalysis, writing and identity, fictionality and femininity."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]- 219) and index.