Writing an Icon : Celebrity Culture and the Invention of Anaïs Nin /

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"Anaïs Nin, the diarist, novelist, and provocateur, occupied a singular space in twentieth-century culture, not only as a literary figure and voice of female sexual liberation but as a celebrity and symbol of shifting social mores in postwar America. Before Madonna and her many imitators, ther...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jarczok, Anita (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nin, Anaïs, > 1903-1977.
Literature and society.
Celebrities.
Authors, American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Women Authors.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Celebrities > United States > 20th century.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
United States.
Biography.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Anaïs Nin and her diary
  • Literary celebrity, the modernist marketplace, and marketing the diary
  • Public promotion of the private self : Anaïs Nin's self-constructions i the diary
  • Public relations of the self : Anaïs Nin, feminism, and celebrity authorship
  • Success, scandal, sex, and the search for the "real" Anaïs Nin
  • Conclusion : Anaïs Nin in the twenty-first century.

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