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Kate Chopin

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Noun1.Kate Chopin - United States writer who described Creole life in Louisiana (1851-1904)

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Wells, Pauline Hopkins, Kate Chopin, and David Bryant Fulton, Gunning reveals how their work both reinforced and resisted prevailing "malignant images of black masculinity" and thereby contributed to the continual re-negotiation of the terms and boundaries of a national dialogue on racial violence.
The writers selected for Delbanco's analysis are Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Adams, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston.
She carefully separates known facts from speculation: when writing about the possible romance between the newly widowed Kate Chopin and a married man, Albert Sampite, she writes, "Whatever happened (or did not happen), hints in Kate's later diary entries and the appearance of an Albert-like character in her stories prove that she was obsessed by Albert Sampite.
 
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