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Bergland, Betty. "Reconstructing the 'Self' in America: Patterns in Immigrant Women's Autobiographies," University of Minnesota, January 1990. Advisor: George Lipsitz (2,8,22)
The dissertation examines four representative immigrant autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish women who came to the United States at the turn-of-the-century: Mary Antin, Anzia Yezierska, Hilda Satt Polacheck, and Emma Goldman. By using a chronotipic (literally time/space) analysis, the study examines the temporal and spatial positions of the autobiographical subjects, the construction of these in discourses surrounding gender and ethnicity, and the social and political implications of these subjectivities within dominant cultural narratives. The non-cognitive and non-linguistic approach to analyzing immigrant autobiographies suggests a model for reading personal narratives, especially of those groups marginalized in the culture.
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