<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This essay analyses the life narratives of two European women - Anaїs Nin’s Diary and Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation - in order to investigate how their transition to North America affected their sense of self. It emphasises the key role that language and narrative play in the formation of identity, and argues that both writers reinvented themselves both in their adopted language and in writing.</p></abstract>

This essay analyses the life narratives of two European women - Anaїs Nin’s Diary and Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation - in order to investigate how their transition to North America affected their sense of self. It emphasises the key role that language and narrative play in the formation of identity, and argues that both writers reinvented themselves both in their adopted language and in writing.

Re-Constructing the Self in Language and Narrative in Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation: a Life in a New Language and Anaїs Nin’s Early Diaries

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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This essay analyses the life narratives of two European women - Anaїs Nin’s Diary and Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation - in order to investigate how their...

Re-Constructing the Self in Language and Narrative in Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation: a Life in a New Language and Anaїs Nin’s Early Diaries

Published Online: Jan 12, 2016

Page range: 21 - 37

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/stap-2015-0021

Keywords
Exile, identity, self, language, narrative, Anaїs Nin, Eva Hoffman

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Re-Constructing the Self in Language and Narrative in Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation: a Life in a New Language and Anaїs Nin’s Early Diaries

Published Online: Jan 12, 2016

Page range: 21 - 37

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/stap-2015-0021

KeywordsExile, identity, self, language, narrative, Anaїs Nin, Eva Hoffman

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Exile, identity, self, language, narrative, Anaїs Nin, Eva Hoffman