Georgia State University ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University English Dissertations Department of English 8-10-2021 “Where—Am I?”: H.D.’s Search for Identity Dianne D. Berger Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_diss Recommended Citation Berger, Dianne D., "“Where—Am I?”: H.D.’s Search for Identity." Dissertation, Georgia State University, 2021. https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_diss/248 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of English at ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in English Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. “Where—Am I?”: H.D.’s Search for Identity by Dianne Berger Under the Direction of Randy Malamud, PhD A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences Georgia State University 2021 ABSTRACT Hilda Doolittle is best known as the imagist poet H.D. In a career lasting a half-century, H.D. also penned essays, memoirs, fiction, and translations of classical Greek works. Regardless of the genre, H.D. reveals much of her self in her work. Immediately following World War 1, she confronted her traumatic experiences during the war years. During World War II, she concentrated on the relationships—primarily with males—that had formed her identity. In the last work published in her lifetime, she conveyed what she had learned in her lifelong quest for identity. I explore selections from H.D.’s work in these three categories.