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KATE CHOPIN nee Katherine O’Flaherty

KATE CHOPIN nee Katherine O’Flaherty. Born in St. Louis, Missouri - 1851 Died in St. Louis, Missouri - 1904 Father - Irish Mother - French Creole Married Oscar Chopin - 1870 Moved to New Orleans. Kate Chopin continued. Six Children Chopin’s business collapsed - 1879

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KATE CHOPIN nee Katherine O’Flaherty

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  1. KATE CHOPIN nee Katherine O’Flaherty Born in St. Louis, Missouri - 1851 Died in St. Louis, Missouri - 1904 Father - Irish Mother - French Creole Married Oscar Chopin - 1870 Moved to New Orleans

  2. Kate Chopin continued Six Children Chopin’s business collapsed - 1879 Oscar Chopin dies - 1883 Chopin and children move to St.Louis -1884 Mother dies - 1885 Published - 1889

  3. CHOPIN’S WORKS “If It Might Be” - 1889 “Wiser Than a God” - 1889 “A Point at Issue” -1889 At Fault - 1890 Young Dr. Grosse - unpublished Bayou Folk - 1894 A Night in Acadie - 1897 The Awakening - 1899

  4. CHOPIN’S THEMES • Women’s Emancipation • Marital Discord • Radical perspective on love, sex, and marriage • Women’s search for selfhood • Self-Discovery or identity • Women’s revolt against conformity

  5. CHOPIN AS WRITER • Considered one of the foremost Southern regionalist writers • Use of Irony • Details the social and sexual subtleties of the Cajun and Creole culture • Illicit passions • Truthful portrayal of women’s lives • Criticizes youthful illusions about beauty

  6. WRITER CONTINUED • Self-Awareness • Use of Symbolism • Imagery

  7. INFLUENCES • Walt Whitman • Guy de Maupassant • Emile Zola • George Sand • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Wallace Stevens • Gustave Flaubert

  8. INFLUENCED • Edith Wharton • Sylvia Plath • Hilda Doolittle (HD) • James Joyce • Virginia Woolf

  9. Bibliography

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