Continuity of the "Womb Writing" in Anaїs Nin's House of Incest


Abstract in English

This article explores the possibility of establishing a unique feminine aesthetics within the larger domain of female body politics in the French writer Anaїs Nin's controversial work, House Of Incest (1936). The article questions the apparent submerging of the female body in the literary representations of the canon. This research also attempts to study how Nin's formulation of the "womb writing" extends and, actually, precedes the tradition of l'ecriture feminine by way of analyzing the female body's engagement with and commitment to a continuous existence through the body's most basic organic function; i.e. (re)productivity.

References used

ANDERSEN, MARGRET. "Critical Approaches to Anaїs Nin." Canadian Review of American Literature 10.2 (1979): 255-65. JSTOR. Web. 15 Mar. 2015
BATAILLE, GEORGE. Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo. New York: Walker, 1962. Print
CHARNOCK, RUTH. "Incest in the 1990s: Reading Anaїs Nin's 'Father Story'." Life Writing 11.1 (2014): 55-68. JSTOR. Web. 16 Mar. 2015

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