Anita Jarczok, Writing an Icon: Celebrity Culture and the Invention of Anaïs Nin

Anita Jarczok, Writing an Icon: Celebrity Culture and the Invention of Anaïs Nin

Anita Jarczok, Writing an Icon: Celebrity Culture and the Invention of Anaïs Nin Swallow Press, 2017. Pp. 263. ISBN 978-0-8040-1176-1 Wayne E. Arnold The identities Anaïs Nin created surrounding her public and private image are multifold, incongruent, and intentional. What is not intentional, we lea...

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Published in:European Journal of American Studies 2019-04
Main Author: Arnold, Wayne E
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Biographies
Celebrities
Diaries
Writing
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Summary:Anita Jarczok, Writing an Icon: Celebrity Culture and the Invention of Anaïs Nin Swallow Press, 2017. Pp. 263. ISBN 978-0-8040-1176-1 Wayne E. Arnold The identities Anaïs Nin created surrounding her public and private image are multifold, incongruent, and intentional. What is not intentional, we learn in Anita Jarczok’s new study, is the posthumous alterations to Nin’s persona. In this fascinating walk through Nin’s public-image history, Jarczok meticulously delineates the “rises and falls”...
ISSN:1991-9336
1991-9336