
Anais Nin, Fictionality and Femininity
Playing a Thousand Roles
Helen Tookey(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 16. January 2003
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-19-924983-1 (ISBN)
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.
Reviews / Votes
The book reveals Tookey's thorough grasp of Nin's writings and of all relevant and recent literary criticism.... Articulate, readable, and well footnoted, with a good bibliography and index, this is a valuable volume for Nin scholars. * Choice *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 Fotos bzw. Rasterbilder
2 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
475 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-924983-1 (9780199249831)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Helen Tookey was born in Leicester in 1969. She studied philosophy at Sheffield and Cambridge, gaining a D.Phil from Oxford in 2000. She has taught at Liverpool University and Manchester Metropolitan University.
Content
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX