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Verging on the Abyss - The Social Fiction of Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton (Hardcover, New)
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Verging on the Abyss - The Social Fiction of Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton (Hardcover, New)
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While neither Kate Chopin nor Edith Wharton can be called feminist
writers, each did produce "female moral art," writings that focus
relentlessly on the dialectics of social relations and the position
of women therein. Mary Papke analyzes their disintegrative visions
through detailed readings of virtually all of their novels and
several of their shorter works. Unlike comparable writers of their
time, theirs was a nonpolemical but nonetheless political art in
which disruption of the rules of masculine/feminine discourse and
the hegemonic world view are deeply but obviously embedded within
character, plot, and theme. Papke begins with a brief examination
of the ideology of true womanhood, which, she argues, permeates
Chopin's and Wharton's fiction and world views. The remainder of
her work offers an ideological reading of their social fiction in
which their characters search for states of liminality, where they
might achieve, however momentarily, autonomy. Repeatedly, Papke
argues, these states of liminality are literally encoded into
images of characters positioned on the edge of an abyss that then
becomes a repository of multiple meanings. The author presents
Chopin's and Wharton's female discourse as radical art because it
dares to defy that which is both alienating and destructive.
Papke's provocative analysis will be of interest not only to
Wharton and Chopin scholars, but also to those working in the
fields of feminist and women's studies. It will also interest
scholars and students of American studies, particularly those
working on late nineteenth and early twentieth century literature.
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