176 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
This volume aims to reread, reevaluate, and recreate Anaïs Nin as a writer. In so doing, it draws on the wealth of Japanese critique of Nin, notable for its distinctive tendency to approach both her life and work with a non-judgmental attitude. The study focuses on Nin in the 1930s when she lived in Paris, her birthplace and “second home” in Gertrude Stein’s terminology, where she experienced... Read more
Introduction
Part One
Chapter 1: Anais Nin's Diary
Chapter 2: Rereading AN through Henry&June
Chapter 3: Imaginary Father
Chapter 4: Incest
Part Two
Chapter 5: House of Incest
Chapter 6: Djuna
Chapter 7: Psychoanalysis
Chapter 8: Lilith
Coda
Twittering Machine of Paradise
Biography
Yuko Yaguchi is Professor of English and Gender Studies at Niigata University of International and Information Studies. She is the author of Anaïs Nin's Paris Revisited: The English-French Bilingual Edition and co-author of Critical Analysis of Anaïs Nin in Japan and Anais Nin in Context.
