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  • Ana?s Nin, Fictionality and Femininity: Playing a Thousand Roles

    Ana?s Nin, Fictionality and Femininity by Tookey, Helen;

    Playing a Thousand Roles

    Series: Oxford English Monographs;

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 16 January 2003

    • ISBN 9780199249831
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages240 pages
    • Size 223x144x17 mm
    • Weight 392 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 2 halftones
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    Short description:

    Helen Tookey examines the work of Ana?s 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, particularly questions of identity, femininity, and psychoanalysis.

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    Long description:

    Helen Tookey presents a new study of Ana?s 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. Ana?s 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.

    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.

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    Table of Contents:

    Acknowledgements
    List of Illustrations
    List of Abbreviations
    Introduction
    'I Must Live within Stories': Narratives of the Self
    'As Fluid as Mercury': Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Questions of Identity
    Sphinxes and Scheherezades: The Actress and the Femme Fatale
    'Revolution in Writing': Gender, Modernism, and the Aesthetics of the Ideal Language
    'I am the Other Face of You': Fantasies and Femininity
    Bibliography
    Index

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