dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Borzaga, Michela | |
dc.contributor.author | Werdnik, Paula | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-09-09T04:02:27Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-09-09T04:02:27Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/42726 | |
dc.description.abstract | This Master's thesis explores Anais Nin's controversial first unexpurgated diary, titled Henry & June. The thesis explores the ways in which the diary has been an influential literary space of self-representation for women writers, both as a platform of self-fashioning and as a safe space for exploring taboo topics. This thesis explores various taboo notions such as lesbian desire, queerness, non-monogamous relationships, female sexuality, incest, the fragmented self, and childhood trauma. Sigmund Freud's notions of the taboo and pscyhoanalysis, as defined in Totem and Taboo (1913), act as a theoretical framework within this thesis.
While the diary has historically received less critical attention than other life-writing genres such as the autobiography, this thesis proposes that the diary can act as a feminist literary space in which conventional gender roles can be challenged through writing, the self can be explored, and taboo topics can be addressed. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
dc.language.iso | EN | |
dc.subject | This MA thesis centers on a close reading analysis of Anais Nin's first unexpurgated diary, titled Henry & June. This thesis aims to explore the ways in which the diary form has been influential as a space of self-representation for women writers, and as a space of exploring taboo topics such as queer or non-monogamous relationships, female sexuality, and challenging conventional gender roles through writing. Sigmund Freud's notions of the taboo and pscyhoanalysis act as a theoretical framework. | |
dc.title | Exploring Gender Roles and Sigmund Freud’s Taboo in the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin | |
dc.type.content | Master Thesis | |
dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
dc.subject.keywords | Taboo; gender roles; Anais Nin; diary; diary writing; psychoanalysis; self-representation; women writers; feminist literature; censorship; the self; | |
dc.subject.courseuu | Literatuur vandaag | |
dc.thesis.id | 10458 | |