Identity Borderlands: Life-writing and Anne Frank's Diary

Abstract

According to the perspective of life‑writing studies, diaries may be conceived as borderland genres, whose boundaries shift between the private and the public selves. It may be stated that diaries function as transforming locations, in which a sort of negotiation is set between the public persona and the private desires of the one who writes. This article aims to analyze such phenomenon, more specifically, in Anne Frank’s diary writing, by making use of its three versions (a, b, and c).