"Try to be as the others around you": Hilda Weiss - die Konstituierung des moralischen Selbst im Kontrast von Freiheit und Anpassung

'This paper is an analysis of the autobiography of a female emigrant, published in 1940. Its main concern is with the issue of how coping with experiences that occurred in the course of socialization helps build the moral self. The method elaborated to this end relies on Michael Bakhtin's theory of dialogism and on the key argument that autobiographical texts may carry 'voices' of others that are …