Author Proposal

February 13, 2008, 2:09 am
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I am going to do my American Author project on Kate Chopin. What caught my eye about her was the controversy of her most famous book The Awakening. I think Kate Chopins’ most American quality is her mixed decent [Irish and French] but she was born in the U.S. She was later realized as an early feminist author, and this also caught my eye. She wrote a number of widely read novels and stories, which only came to light as the social conservatism of the early 1900’s wore away. After publishing The Awakening [a book about a discontent wife who seeks passion away from a passionless marriage] Chopin was endlessly criticized and all but banished from the literary world. After her harsh rejection, she continued to write normal stories, to continue by herself to support her children .
I am defiantly going to read The Awakening, and I also want to read most of her short stories, Bayou People, and At Fault.