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Coloring the U.S.-Mexico Border Geographical Othering and Postbellum Nation Building in Kate Chopin's The Awakening

Salinas, Shanna M

Studies in American fiction, 2018-03, Vol.45 (1), p.39-60 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

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  • Título:
    Coloring the U.S.-Mexico Border Geographical Othering and Postbellum Nation Building in Kate Chopin's The Awakening
  • Autor: Salinas, Shanna M
  • Assuntos: Antebellum period ; Anxieties ; Authors ; Chopin, Kate ; Chopin, Kate (1851-1904) ; Civil war ; Creole languages ; English Literature ; Hurricanes ; In literature ; Mexican-American Border Region ; Mexican-American Frontier ; Nation building ; National Identity ; Nineteenth Century ; Otherness ; Personal Identity ; Plantations ; Plot (Narrative) ; Race ; Spanish-American War ; The Awakening ; United States ; War ; White supremacy
  • É parte de: Studies in American fiction, 2018-03, Vol.45 (1), p.39-60
  • Descrição: According to Helen Taylor, the opening scene on Grand Isle emphasizes the South as "economically moribund," "its plantation/slave economy" having been "destroyed by emancipation and the Civil War," which turns a once thriving economic system into a mere "resort" for the vacationing Creole elite.2 Léonce thus typifies the antiquated former social and economic structure of the prewar South. According to Jason M. Colby, the filibustering efforts of the 1850s, which resulted in the United States' forcibly seizing Central American territories in order to secure and buttress confederate slavery interests before the Civil War, also reflect the abiding effects of the U.S.-Mexico War: "The 1848 victory over Mexico left thousands of American men enthralled with conquest and convinced of their racial superiority. According to critic Joseph G. Tregle Jr., New Orleans' writers, notably George Washington Cable and Chopin, in part helped create and solidify what he terms the Creole "myth": one that is "rigid, absolute" and pertaining solely to "native Louisianan[s] of pure white blood descended from those French and Spanish pioneers who came directly from Europe to colonize the New World. [...]the expansiveness of Edna's experiential freedom on Grand Isle is frequently associated with the Gulf of Mexico, which in turn is repeatedly linked to her earliest memories of freedom and possibility in the Kentucky meadow of her childhood: "The hot wind beating in my face made me think—without any connection that I can trace—of a summer day in Kentucky, of a meadow that seemed as big as the ocean to the very little girl walking through the grass, which was higher than her waist.
  • Editor: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Idioma: Inglês
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