Overview
Kate Chopin around the World: Global Perspectives offers a fresh, international lens on Chopin’s impact on readers around the world. Contributors from multiple continents situate Chopin’s fiction within national and regional locales, reflecting on the reading, researching, and teaching of her work through different cultural lenses. Essays, from both new and seasoned Chopin scholars, draw from a range of critical approaches to demonstrate the broad-reaching effects Chopin has had around the globe. At times, their essays are personal, as contributors reflect on the profound effect the author’s fiction had on their lives, research, and even students. Read together, the essays offer a rich conversation with a multiplicity of perspectives from different countries and cultures, demonstrating the incredible influence Chopin—a nineteenth-century American widow who sought to support her six children through her writing—has had on readers, scholars, and teachers for generations.
Full Product Details
Author: Heather Ostman ,
Anna Maria Farabbi ,
Bernie Koloski ,
Cido Rossi
Publisher: Lexington Books
Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Weight: 0.472kg
ISBN: 9781666956832
ISBN 10: 166695683
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 19 February 2025
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""Ostman's volume confirms that for nearly the last century, Chopin's work has traveled the globe, garnering more interest across continents than the author of local color fiction ever could have hoped to achieve in her lifetime. Although informed by her European ancestry and American birth, Chopin's fiction does not belong to any one nation; its explorations of the tensions between individual freedoms and cultural institutions contain endless uses for audiences across time and place."" --Bonnie James Shaker, Kent University ""In just over half a century since the Kate Chopin revival of the 1960s, when her novels and stories were available only in English, her fiction, especially The Awakening, has been translated into twenty-four languages and published across the world. Authoritative Chopin scholar, Heather Ostman has introduced and edited this ground-breaking collection of critical essays documenting Chopin's published international presence by leading scholars Bernie Koloski (France), Helen Taylor (Britain), Heidi M. Podlasli (Germany), and Eulalia Piñero Gil (Spain) as well as by newer critical voices from Russia, Italy, South Asia, and Qatar. This is a milestone volume, reflecting Chopin's arrival on the world's stages. "" --Thomas Bonner Jr., Xavier University
Author Information
Heather Ostman is director of the Humanities Institute and the Humanities Curriculum Chair, as well as professor of English at SUNY Westchester Community College.
