Summary
Diverging from Chopin biographers who focus on the men in the author's life, Toth argues that Chopin's intellectual mentors were, in fact, female relatives and friends and the Sisters of the Sacred Heart. Donna Campbell discusses At Fault as a social problem novel that raises central questions about black loyalty to white masters and the submerged violence born of systemic racism.
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The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin
The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin. Edited by Janet Beer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xii + 184 pp. $29.99.
Kate Chopin aficionados will find this volume refreshing in its breadth. While The Awakening is given due treatment, Chopin...See the full content of this document
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