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A Gentle Roar:. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Feb 2010, Pages: 212
Kate Chopin reconsiders existing literary traditions: First the realist tradition of W.D. Howells, in which choice is replaced by moral and social imperative; then the tradition of Maupassant that rejects cultural imperative but marginalizes the female consciousness; and finally the deterministic tradition of Flaubert, in which objective representation of the female protagonist prohibits intersubjective apprehension of her consciousness. Reading Chopin in this historical context, we see her critique and transformation of existing patriarchal discourse. Her more subjective narrator reveals the female consciousness and validates the marginalized female voice.
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