Anais Nin

Rezensionen / Stimmen

"As a new-generation Nin scholar, Clara Oropeza expands Nin's mythic territory into a feminist realm of self-realization beyond the strictures of literal male autobiography and logocentric Modernism. Informed by the academic field of self-life writing, Oropeza provocatively reexamines the diary as an exploratory genre in which Nin "slants" fact into fiction largely through her creative role as a literary trickster. This is a daring, fresh interpretation of Anais Nin's artistic orientation."-Suzanne Nalbantian, PhD., author of Memory in Literature: From Rousseau to Neuroscience and editor of Anais Nin: Literary Perspectives

"Anais Nin: A Myth of Her Own is more than a groundbreaking study of a major modernist author, for this book reveals a mythic method to rival that of T. S. Eliot on Joyce, one superbly crafted by Nin to re-make being as feminine, creative, flexibly narrative, embodied and trickster-like. Oropeza traces a new direction in modernist studies that is Jungian, feminist, ecocritical and liberatory. This superb book is a must for all serious students of modernism, women writers, life writing, feminist theory and psychoanalytical approaches to literature as well as scholars of interdisciplinary breakthroughs to a new paradigm in the humanities."-Susan Rowland, PhD., author of Jung as a Writer (2005), The Ecocriticial Psyche (2012) and Remembering Dionysus (2017) "As a new-generation Nin scholar, Clara Oropeza expands Nin's mythic territory into a feminist realm of self-realization beyond the strictures of literal male autobiography and logocentric Modernism. Informed by the academic field of self-life writing, Oropeza provocatively reexamines the diary as an exploratory genre in which Nin "slants" fact into fiction largely through her creative role as a literary trickster. This is a daring, fresh interpretation of Anais Nin's artistic orientation."-Suzanne Nalbantian, PhD., author of Memory in Literature: From Rousseau to Neuroscience and editor of Anais Nin: Literary Perspectives

"Anais Nin: A Myth of Her Own is more than a groundbreaking study of a major modernist author, for this book reveals a mythic method to rival that of T. S. Eliot on Joyce, one superbly crafted by Nin to re-make being as feminine, creative, flexibly narrative, embodied and trickster-like. Oropeza traces a new direction in modernist studies that is Jungian, feminist, ecocritical and liberatory. This superb book is a must for all serious students of modernism, women writers, life writing, feminist theory and psychoanalytical approaches to literature as well as scholars of interdisciplinary breakthroughs to a new paradigm in the humanities."-Susan Rowland, PhD., author of Jung as a Writer (2005), The Ecocriticial Psyche (2012) and Remembering Dionysus (2017)

"Oropeza's work will prove stimulating for scholars interested in ideas concerning myth-making in the realm of life writing. There are meaningful connections that reveal Nin's process of self-life writing and tendency toward mythopoesis" -WayneE.Arnold, University of Kitakyushu, Japan, Life Writing Journal