Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 173 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9783031443008
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3031443004
Series Statement:
American literature readings in the 21st century
Content:
This book examines selected short stories and novels by Kate Chopin through the lens of the city of New Orleans. Chopins depictions of and references to New Orleans celebrate the vibrancy of this unique American city, but also illustrate the complex, interdependent relationships defined within its coded system of racial, gendered, and class designations. These stories feature canny depictions of the complexity of human struggles for freedom as well as love within this nineteenth-century southern city. While Chopin has been highly regarded as a local color writer and especially as a feminist literary icon, this book shows how the authors city stories also point to her sophistication as an author who perceived the shifting literary landscape, and it identifies the ways many of these stories protomodernist elements anticipate the advent of the Modern era
Note:
Introduction -- 1 Post-Civil War Stories -- 2 Art, Music, and Language -- 3 Postbellum Transitions -- 4 The Protomodern City -- 5 New Orleans and Chopins Novels -- Conclusion.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031442995
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3031442997
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ostman, Heather Kate Chopin and the city Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 ISBN 9783031442995
Language:
English
