Kate Chopin, was born Katherine O'Flaherty in St. Louis on Feburary8,1851, of a prosperous Irish-born merchant father and an aristocratic Creole mother. She studied piano, wrote poetry, and read Dickens, Austen, Goethe, de Stael, and the Brontes. Despite her free spirit--she was once nicknamed the "littlest rebel" for yanking down a Union flag--Kate grew to be a leading social belle, admired for her wit and beauty.
In 1870 she married Oscar Chopin. Matrimony did not quell her independence; she dressed unconventionally, took long unchaperoned walks, and smoked cigarettes. In their twelve years of married life, she bore six children, and upon Oscar's sudden death in 1882 she took over the management of the Chopin family plantation in Natchitoches, Louisana. She turned seriously to writing shortly thereafter, publishing stories in Vogue and Atlantic Monthly. She wrote a novel, At Fault(1890), Bayou Folk, a collection of stories(1894), A Night in Acadie, a second collection (1897), and her masterpiece The Awakening(1899), which aroused a national scandal for its "indecency." Banned by libraries, it even prevented her admission into the St. Louis Fine Arts Club--even though Kate Chopin was famous for her literary salon, which attracted distinguished artists and writers from all over the country.
Always sensitive to criticism, Chopin was devastated by the furor that surrounded the publication of The Awakening, and its harsh reception ultimately caused her to stop writing. When she died in 1904, she had been denied the recognition she desperately wanted and richly deserved.
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Introduction by Elaine Showalter
在阅读过许多女性主义评论的吹捧后来看原文,发现也并没有那么离经叛道惊世骇俗。但在当时社会,一本描述一个只寻求从家庭独立、寻找自我的女性的小说会受到如此严重的抨击和污名化,足见社会父权制之兼顾和风气之保守。写的很简单,视角也非常女性化,社交和晚宴占了极大篇幅,注意力也多在衣裳等琐碎细节上,语言更是矫饰的华丽。但是女性的觉醒经由暧昧和迟来的叛逆迸发出的能量显现为如此坚实的resoluteness,并且在写法上让男性角色变得次要却不可缺少,是难能可贵的。
评分在阅读过许多女性主义评论的吹捧后来看原文,发现也并没有那么离经叛道惊世骇俗。但在当时社会,一本描述一个只寻求从家庭独立、寻找自我的女性的小说会受到如此严重的抨击和污名化,足见社会父权制之兼顾和风气之保守。写的很简单,视角也非常女性化,社交和晚宴占了极大篇幅,注意力也多在衣裳等琐碎细节上,语言更是矫饰的华丽。但是女性的觉醒经由暧昧和迟来的叛逆迸发出的能量显现为如此坚实的resoluteness,并且在写法上让男性角色变得次要却不可缺少,是难能可贵的。
评分在阅读过许多女性主义评论的吹捧后来看原文,发现也并没有那么离经叛道惊世骇俗。但在当时社会,一本描述一个只寻求从家庭独立、寻找自我的女性的小说会受到如此严重的抨击和污名化,足见社会父权制之兼顾和风气之保守。写的很简单,视角也非常女性化,社交和晚宴占了极大篇幅,注意力也多在衣裳等琐碎细节上,语言更是矫饰的华丽。但是女性的觉醒经由暧昧和迟来的叛逆迸发出的能量显现为如此坚实的resoluteness,并且在写法上让男性角色变得次要却不可缺少,是难能可贵的。
评分在阅读过许多女性主义评论的吹捧后来看原文,发现也并没有那么离经叛道惊世骇俗。但在当时社会,一本描述一个只寻求从家庭独立、寻找自我的女性的小说会受到如此严重的抨击和污名化,足见社会父权制之兼顾和风气之保守。写的很简单,视角也非常女性化,社交和晚宴占了极大篇幅,注意力也多在衣裳等琐碎细节上,语言更是矫饰的华丽。但是女性的觉醒经由暧昧和迟来的叛逆迸发出的能量显现为如此坚实的resoluteness,并且在写法上让男性角色变得次要却不可缺少,是难能可贵的。
评分在阅读过许多女性主义评论的吹捧后来看原文,发现也并没有那么离经叛道惊世骇俗。但在当时社会,一本描述一个只寻求从家庭独立、寻找自我的女性的小说会受到如此严重的抨击和污名化,足见社会父权制之兼顾和风气之保守。写的很简单,视角也非常女性化,社交和晚宴占了极大篇幅,注意力也多在衣裳等琐碎细节上,语言更是矫饰的华丽。但是女性的觉醒经由暧昧和迟来的叛逆迸发出的能量显现为如此坚实的resoluteness,并且在写法上让男性角色变得次要却不可缺少,是难能可贵的。
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