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- Title
Fear and Desire: Regional Aesthetics and Colonial Desire in Kate Chopin's Portrayals of the Tragic Mulatta Stereotype.
- Authors
Pegues, Dagmar
- Abstract
This article offers the author's insights on the depictions of tragic mulatta stereotype and regional aesthetics in Kate Chopin short stories "La Belle Zoraïde" and "Désirée's Baby," and the book "The Awakening." The author states that Chopin's illumination of tragic mulatta figure in her texts calls a reconsideration of a tragic mulatta stereotype that moves between evocations of sentimental and exotic, portraying a pervasive paradigm of post-colonial image and southern local color fiction. Furthermore, depictions of tragic mulatta by Chopin represent a vital point of concurrence of race, gender and region towards racial anxiety. He suggests that Chopin's fiction offers an involvement of race that transcends exoticism of local color by expressing the feelings of fear and desire.
- Subjects
CHOPIN, Kate, 1850-1904; FEAR in literature; DESIRE in literature; AESTHETICS in literature; AWAKENING, The (Book : Chopin); LA Belle Zoraide (Short story); DESIREE'S Baby (Short story); RACE in literature; EXOTICISM in literature
- Publication
Southern Literary Journal, 2010, Vol 43, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0038-4291
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/slj.2010.0000