Kate Chopin

Bayou Folk (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

La Folle has remained on one side of the bayou for her whole life. When a terrible accident occurs, however, she is forced to relive the traumas of her childhood. A young woman faces terrible prejudice when she gives birth to a racially ambiguous child. Bayou Folk is a collection of short stories by Kate Chopin.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781513276625
• Artikelnr.: 61425383

Autorenporträt

Kate Chopin (1850-1904) was an American writer. Born in St. Louis, Missouri to a family with French and Irish ancestry, Chopin was raised Roman Catholic. An avid reader, Chopin graduated from Sacred Heart Convent in 1968 before marrying Oscar Chopin, with whom she moved to New Orleans in 1870. The two had six children before Oscar's death in 1882, which left the family with extensive debts and forced Kate to take over her husband's businesses, including the management of several plantations and a general store. In the early 1890s, back in St. Louis and suffering from depression, Chopin began writing short stories, articles, and translations for local newspapers and literary magazines. Although she achieved moderate critical acclaim for her second novel, The Awakening (1899)-now considered a classic of American literature and a pioneering work of feminist fiction-fame and success eluded her in her lifetime. In the years since her death, however, Chopin has been recognized as a leading author of her generation who captured with a visionary intensity the lives of Southern women, often of diverse or indeterminate racial background.