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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Kate Chopin"”.
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New Consciousness in Kate Chopin's Women
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"When Love is Born in a Cage Not of lts Own Building ": The New Woman and Fiction of Kate Chopin
… developed and defined through the literature of Kate Chopin.</p>
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From exile to transcendence: racial mixture and the journey of revision in the works of Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin, James Weldon Johnson, and Jean Toomer
… five authors: Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin, James Weldon Johnson, and Jean Toomer. It examines each author’s effort to represent the mixed-race character as a constant “process of becoming” (Hall, Questions of Identity 4). This study aims to convey the distinctiveness of the …
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Navigating Identity Through Education in Literature and in the Classroom
… of writers such as Paulo Freire, bell hooks, Kate Chopin Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Erin Gruwell, the thesis seeks to answer how education impacts the self and how it intersects with systems of oppression. Furthermore, I explore the role of education in fostering critical consciousness and …
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Cross -Border Critical Race Theory: Black and Native Fiction, American and Canadian Legal Policy
I show how Nella Larsen, James Weldon Johnson, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, George Schuyler, and Toni Morrison expose and challenge the Black/White binary and one drop rule, targeting their respective contemporary audiences with a specifically American understanding of race. Contemporary Black …
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Transatlantic intimacies: The homoerotic affect worlds of nineteenth-century print culture
… of the century. Through readings of works by Kate Chopin, Julia Magruder, and Amy Levy, the thesis explores the ways that these affective interactions were constructed, and the manner in which they hailed implied readers into an intimate public with one another. Ultimately, these novels offer …
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Arranging Stories: The Implications of Narrative Decision in Short Story Collections by Southern Women Writers, 1894-1944
… stories into first short story collections by Kate Chopin, Ellen Glasgow, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Katherine Anne Porter. Publishing a collection enabled authors to revise their stories outside of magazines’ requirements and provided the agency to arrange individual stories into a …
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Defining the Home from Chopin to McCarthy
… home and journeying in select works from authors Kate Chopin to Cormac McCarthy whose writing frames a period of just over one hundred years, in order to discern if the cultural myth of the pastoral shifts or remains static. This is achieved by highlighting the contrast between the expectations …
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Messages for Girls: Looking at the Representation of Women's Short Fiction in American Literature High School Anthologies
… This group consisted of Sarah Ome Jewett, Kate Chopin, Willa Gather, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Shirley Jackson, and Flannery O'Connor. The researcher then studied each writer and analyzed the short stories that were included in the Laurens County School System's adopted …
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Reading In Vogue: The Function of Fashion in Three Chopin Short Stories
… not been done with the nineteen short stories Kate Chopin published in the magazine between 1893-1900. Vogue was not known for literary acclaim and did not pay very much to its fiction authors. Considering that Chopin was writing for a living, this paper aims to explain why she so persistently …
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One another: Women's friendship and the matrix of becoming in twentieth century American novels
… womb. This thesis closely reads The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899), Passing by Nella Larsen (1929), Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1937), The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1959) and Sula by Toni Morrison (1973). Although not emblematic, consideration of these novels …
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One another: Women's friendship and the matrix of becoming in twentieth century American novels
… womb. This thesis closely reads The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899), Passing by Nella Larsen (1929), Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1937), The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1959) and Sula by Toni Morrison (1973). Although not emblematic, consideration of these novels …
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Small-Town Mentality and Female Perspectives
At the end of the 19th and also at the beginning of the 20th century several social and cultural changes took place that shaped American society. One of the most significant of them was the appearance of big cities, which resulted in the duality and led to the born of a new way thinking. In the new …
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The Plantation Pull: Modernities and Genre in the Anglo-Hispanic-Dutch Caribbean-Atlantic, 1831-1935
… Forsaking Nostalgia for Some Forgotten Whole: Kate Chopin’s <em>At Fault</em> and Cola Debrot’s <em>My Black Sister</em>, Reconciliation Narratives that Diversify,” considers the post-colonial reconciliation moment of the U.S. South and the Dutch Caribbean in the late nineteenth and early …
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Novel faiths: nonsecular fiction in the late-nineteenth-century U.S.
My dissertation, “Novel Faiths: Nonsecular Fiction in the Late-Nineteenth-Century U.S.,” presents a new theory of the novel genre using an archive seldom put to such ends: late-nineteenth-century America’s outpouring of popular religious fiction. For many scholars, the novel form and the period …