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Woods, Gioia Elisa.

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Making place in Western American autobiography: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, William Kittredge, Lorena Hays, and Maxine Hong Kingston.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Making place in Western American autobiography: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, William Kittredge, Lorena Hays, and Maxine Hong Kingston./
Author:	Woods, Gioia Elisa.
Description:	219 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Cheryll Glotfelty.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-08A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9942304
ISBN:	9780599438170

Making place in Western American autobiography: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, William Kittredge, Lorena Hays, and Maxine Hong Kingston.
Woods, Gioia Elisa.

Making place in Western American autobiography: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, William Kittredge, Lorena Hays, and Maxine Hong Kingston. - 219 p.

Adviser: Cheryll Glotfelty.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 1999.

In his memoir A Hole in the Sky, William Kittredge observes that "the way we make ourselves at home in the world is by one act of imagination after another, telling stories, naming." The concept of home is intimately tied to the concept of identity---the stories we tell of ourselves involve complicated constructions of both self and place. In autobiography, the stories we tell of ourselves often take the form of narratives, and as Jerome Bruner points out, narrative is not just a simple retelling of events, but a way of organizing our experience. The major themes of this dissertation are the narrative construction of place and self and the ways in which the two are related. In order to demonstrate the narrative construction of self and place, I examine four western American autobiographers from different eras, ethnicities, and placed perspectives. Each autobiographer situates herself or himself within the complex myths of western American identity from different points of view. Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Life among the Piutes, William Kittredge's Hole in the Sky, Lorena Hays's To the Land of Gold and Wickedness , and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior are autobiographies that reveal the perils of writing in the contact zone.

ISBN: 9780599438170Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

Making place in Western American autobiography: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, William Kittredge, Lorena Hays, and Maxine Hong Kingston.
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520 $a By joining the fields of autobiography studies and place studies, I am able to discuss how identity is related to place. I demonstrate how autobiographical theory and place studies can be joined to create a theoretical lens through which a reader may garner new insights into the relationship between self and place.
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