Mapping Gender: Feminist Cartographies in Kate Chopin's "Regionalist" Stories

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Autor principal: Meyers Skredsvig, Kari
Formato: Online
Idioma:eng
Publicado: Universidad de Costa Rica 2003
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filyling/article/view/4472
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spelling FILYLING44722022-06-09T03:09:15Z Mapping Gender: Feminist Cartographies in Kate Chopin's "Regionalist" Stories Mapping Gender: Feminist Cartographies in Kate Chopin's "Regionalist" Stories Meyers Skredsvig, Kari Feminismo literatura estadounidense geografía regionalismo Feminism American Literature geography regionalism In this article the fourth in a series which examines relationships between women and literary space. I examine ways in which conjunctures of literature, geography, and gender shed new light on nineteenth century U.S. author Kate Chopin's "regionalist" stories. In the process of examining her life and her work in terms of geographics of identity and gendered subjectivity, the two representative short stories analyzed here take on a significance far beyond their -local color- surface and themselves become like the stories of their female protagonists sites of struggle. While traditional readings of Chopin's "regionalist" fiction yield mildly intriguing tales which reaffirm cultural boundaries, analysis from a perspective of feminist geographies highlights Chopin's challenges to the circumscribed literary and gender spheres of her own context. . Universidad de Costa Rica 2003-01-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Text Article application/pdf https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filyling/article/view/4472 10.15517/rfl.v29i1.4472 Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica; Vol. 29, Núm 1 (2003); 85-102 Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica; Vol. 29, Núm 1 (2003); 85-102 Revista de Filología y Lingüística; Vol. 29, Núm 1 (2003); 85-102 2215-2628 0377-628X eng https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filyling/article/view/4472/4289 Derechos de autor 2014 Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica
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