Assujettissement and the immigrant experience in Anzia Yezierska's Bread givers

Judit Szilák

Judit Szilák is a recent graduate of Eötvös Loránd University’s Masters program in American Studies. Her article featured here in AMERICANA formed part of her thesis, the subject of which was gender construction in turn of the century fiction, focusing on Yezierska’s Bread Givers, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “Bernice Bobs Her Hair,” and his novel The Great Gatsby, relating these fictional characters and their Foucauldian subjectivation to the historical emergence of the New Woman. Email: judit.szilak@hotmail.com