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Kate Chopin around the World: Global Perspectives offers a fresh, international lens on Chopin's impact on readers around the world. Contributors from multiple continents situate Chopin's fiction within national and regional locales, reflecting on the reading, researching, and teaching of her work through different cultural lenses. Essays, from both new and seasoned Chopin scholars, draw from a range of critical approaches to demonstrate the broad-reaching effects Chopin has had around the globe. At times, their essays are personal, as contributors reflect on the profound effect the author's fiction had on their lives, research, and even students. Read together, the essays offer a rich conversation with a multiplicity of perspectives from different countries and cultures, demonstrating the incredible influence Chopin-a nineteenth-century American widow who sought to support her six children through her writing-has had on readers, scholars, and teachers for generations.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Reading and Teaching Chopin's Fiction around the World

Chapter 1
From the Beginning: Kate Chopin's Works in France
Bernie Koloski

Chapter 2
Bringing Kate Chopin to Britain: a Transatlantic Perspective
Helen Taylor

Chapter 3
Reading Kate Chopin as a Brazilian: a Transnational and Transcultural Approach
Cido Rossi

Chapter 4
What Did She Die of? “The Story of an Hour” in the Middle Eastern Classroom
Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar and Geetha Rajeswar

Chapter 5
“Moments of Life Told in Detail”: Kate Chopin in Russia
Irina V. Morozova

Part 2: Comparative Studies of Chopin's Fiction

Chapter 6
Kate Chopin and the Women Writers of the German Vormärz
Heidi M. Podlasli-Labrenz

Chapter 7
Writing is Power: the Transnational Literary Dialogue in Kate Chopin's “A Pair of Silk Stockings” and Emilia Pardo Bazán's “Las medias rojas”
Eulalia Piñerio Gil

Chapter 8
Leisure, Labor, and Learning: Gendered Economics and the German Bildungsroman in Kate Chopin's Short Stories and Novels
Martina Jauch

Chapter 9
“Transatlantic Convents, Global Sisterhood: Laywomen and Nuns in Kate Chopin's “Lilacs” and Edna O'Brien's “Sister Imelda”
Francisco José Cortés Vieco

Chapter 10
The Gothic Borderlands: Monstrous Maternity and Hideous, Patriarchal Progeny in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Kate Chopin's The Awakening
Jessie Wirkus Haynes

Part 3: Reflections

Chapter 11
The Narrative Orchestra in Kate Chopin
Anna Maria Farabbi

Product details

Published Feb 19 2025
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 210
ISBN 9781666956832
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Heather Ostman

Contributor

Bernie Koloski

Contributor

Helen Taylor

Contributor

Cido Rossi

Contributor

Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar

Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar is a writer and educator b…

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Geetha Rajeswar

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Martina Jauch

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