Surviving history: Kate Chopin
Bearing witness to the colonial and anti-feminist atmosphere of 19th-century America, Kate Chopin created her works against a background of all kinds of repression reigning over social life. Likewise, Désirée’s Baby focuses mainly on a young woman’s marital life and the social/familial problems she...
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| Published in | Ars Aeterna Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 1 - 9 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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De Gruyter Open
01.06.2015
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| Summary: | Bearing witness to the colonial and anti-feminist atmosphere of 19th-century America, Kate Chopin created her works against a background of all kinds of repression reigning over social life. Likewise, Désirée’s Baby focuses mainly on a young woman’s marital life and the social/familial problems she confronts because of her personal background and imperial and gender-based oppression surrounding her life. Through a new historicist reading, the story has several humane elements to be taken into account. Reflecting the periphery and the repressed, Désirée’s Baby is a significant anticanonical writing with an inspiring human touch and a historically excluded work which depicts the dramatic existential problems of the time |
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| ISSN: | 1337-9291 1337-9291 2450-8497 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/aa-2015-0001 |