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Writing an Icon - Celebrity Culture and the Invention of Anais Nin (Hardcover)
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Writing an Icon - Celebrity Culture and the Invention of Anais Nin (Hardcover)
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Anais 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, there was Nin; yet, until now, there has
been no major study of Nin as a celebrity figure. In Writing an
Icon, Anita Jarczok reveals how Nin carefully crafted her literary
and public personae, which she rewrote and restyled to suit her
needs and desires. When the first volume of her diary was published
in 1966, Nin became a celebrity, notorious beyond the artistic and
literary circles in which she previously had operated. Jarczok
examines the ways in which the American media appropriated and
deconstructed Nin and analyzes the influence of Nin's guiding hand
in their construction of her public persona. The key to
understanding Nin's celebrity in its shifting forms, Jarczok
contends, is the Diary itself, the principal vehicle through which
her image has been mediated. Combining the perspectives of
narrative and cultural studies, Jarczok traces the trajectory of
Nin's celebrity, the reception of her writings. The result is an
innovative investigation of the dynamic relationships of Nin's
writing, identity, public image, and consumer culture.
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