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The Awakening's Awakening: Routes toward American Female Literary Tradition

Emphasizing the presence of ideology and the historically silenced female voice in a literary test, contemporary feminist critical approaches provide new interpretive possibilities of Kate Chopin's third novel The Awakening (1899). The novel's refusal of the patriarchal ideology is detectable by means of Bakhtin's model of heteroglossia. By exploring textual absences evident through the clash of generic and character's languages, this approach exhibits late-nineteenth-century woman's contradictory position, shaped by the ideology of separate spheres. At the same time, the multicentredness of polyphony calls attention to the positioning of the other. Designing the new architecture of the female self, Chopin also weaved into her text resistances to traditional narrative strategies of sentimental fiction as well as origins of the feminization of the quest romance.

Kate Chopin, The Awakening, feminist criticism, Bakhtin, heteroglossia, feminization of the quest romance

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