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

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