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The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published on 22 April 1899.Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South.
The following is a list of feminist literature, listed by year of first publication, then within the year alphabetically by title (using the English title rather than the foreign language title if available/applicable). Books and magazines are in italics, all other types of literature are not and are in quotation marks.
Kate Chopin was talented at showing various sides of marriages and local people and their lives, making her writing very broad and sweeping in topic, even as she had many common themes in her work. [29] [30] Martha Cutter argues that Kate Chopin demonstrates feminine resistance to patriarchal society through her short stories. [31]
The Awakening (Chopin novel), an 1899 novel by Kate Chopin; The Awakening (Smith novel), a 1991 Vampire Diaries novel by L. J. Smith "The Awakening" (short story), a 1942 story by Arthur C. Clarke; The Awakening, the third and final arc of the Ben Drowned series by Alexander D. Hall
It is based on the early feminist novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. It starred Kelly McGillis as Edna Pontellier, Jon DeVries as Léonce Pontellier and Adrian Pasdar as Robert Lebrun.
While most readers infer Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" is about the awakening of feminine awareness and the struggle for freedom in a man's world, Li Chongyue and Wang Lihua offer a new analysis. They conclude that Mrs. Mallard is an ungrateful and unfaithful wife. Chopin provides little background on both Mr. and Mrs. Mallard.
"On First Looking (and Looking Once Again) into Chopin's Fiction". In Bernard Koloski. Awakenings: The Story of the Kate Chopin Revival. Southern Literary Studies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. pp. 112–130. ISBN 978-0807134955. Gallardo, Pere. "Two Sides of Feminine Solitude: 'A Pair of Silk Stockings' and 'Regret' by Kate ...
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