In her dissertation, Nina Reibenschuh explores the themes of identity, memory, and cultural displacement in the works of Latin American women writers such as Marjorie Agosín, Ruth Behar, Sandra Cisneros, and Esmeralda Santiago. She argues that the search for the ‘I’ is navigated through subversion of traditinal literary froms and the resistance of dominant narratives, thereby, challenging fixed notions of selfhood, belnding autobiography, fiction, and poetry.
In addition, the dissertations emphasizes the role of memory as an act of personal and collective resistance. By redefining female subjectivity and offering alternative frameworks, the discussed authors resist literary and societal boundaries. Reibenschuh draws on feminist and Inter-American Studies perspectives in order to situate these text within a broader socio-political contexts and concludes that literature offers a space of subversions, empowerment, and historical reinterpretation for Latin American women.