The Development of Female Identity in Asian American Women's Memoirs

Bognar, Mirna

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The Development of Female Identity in Asian American Women's Memoirs

Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022. urn:nbn:hr:131:984401

Bognar, Mirna

University of Zagreb
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English language and literature

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Bognar, M. (2022). The Development of Female Identity in Asian American Women's Memoirs (Master's thesis). Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:984401

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Bognar, Mirna. "The Development of Female Identity in Asian American Women's Memoirs." Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:984401

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Bognar, Mirna. "The Development of Female Identity in Asian American Women's Memoirs." Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:984401

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Bognar, M. (2022). 'The Development of Female Identity in Asian American Women's Memoirs', Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 17 March 2025, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:984401

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Bognar M. The Development of Female Identity in Asian American Women's Memoirs [Master's thesis]. Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2022 [cited 2025 March 17] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:984401

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Title	The Development of Female Identity in Asian American Women's Memoirs
Author	Mirna Bognar
Mentor	Jelena Šesnić (mentor)
Committee member	Sven Cvek (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee member	Hrvoje Tutek (član povjerenstva)
Granter	University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Department of English language and literature) Zagreb
Defense date and country	2022-12-22, Croatia
Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline	HUMANISTIC SCIENCES Philology Anglistics
Abstract	This paper examines the development of the representation of identity in Asian American women’s memoirs in the period around the Second World War. More accurately, it is interested to see how memoirs can serve as a tool to create Asian American woman as a subject or, in other words, how Asian American women use the genres of life-writing to create alternative ethnic and gender narrative plots, thus subverting discourses of power, while also defying the Western expectations about the Oriental other. The paper offers the analyses of Jade Snow Wong’s memoir Fifth Chinese Daughter and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s Farewell to Manzanar, a memoir which she co-authored with her husband James D. Houston. The paper does not aim to make broad claims about Asian American women’s memoirs, but takes a narrower approach by focusing on individual narratives, while also paying attention to the historical, discursive, social and political contexts in which the memoirs were created.
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Language	english
URN:NBN	urn:nbn:hr:131:984401
Study programme	Title: English Language and Literature (single major); specializations in: TEFL, Linguistics, Literature and Culture, Translation Course: Literature and Culture Study programme type: university Study level: graduate Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti)
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Created on	2022-12-22 10:43:17