Kate Chopin Around the World

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Edited by Heather Ostman - Contributions by Bernie Koloski; Helen Taylor; Cido Rossi; Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar; Geetha Rajeswar; Irina V. Morozova; Heidi M. Podlasli-Labrenz; Eulalia Piñerio Gil; Martina Jauch; Francisco José Cortés Vieco; Jessie Wirkus Ha

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This collection brings a fresh, international lens to Chopin studies. The essays reflect on the experience of studying and teaching Chopin in countries outside of the United States, as well as frame studies of particular Chopin stories--including some lesser-known stories--within specific cultural contexts.

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Part 1: Reading and Teaching Chopin's Fiction around the World

Chapter 1

From the Beginning: Kate Chopin's Works in France

Bernie Koloski

Chapter 2

Bringing Kate Chopin to Britain: a Transatlantic Perspective

Helen Taylor

Chapter 3

Reading Kate Chopin as a Brazilian: a Transnational and Transcultural Approach

Cido Rossi

Chapter 4

What Did She Die of? "The Story of an Hour" in the Middle Eastern Classroom

Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar and Geetha Rajeswar

Chapter 5

"Moments of Life Told in Detail": Kate Chopin in Russia

Irina V. Morozova

Part 2: Comparative Studies of Chopin's Fiction

Chapter 6

Kate Chopin and the Women Writers of the German Vormärz

Heidi M. Podlasli-Labrenz

Chapter 7

Writing is Power: the Transnational Literary Dialogue in Kate Chopin's "A Pair of Silk Stockings" and Emilia Pardo Bazán's "Las medias rojas"

Eulalia Piñerio Gil

Chapter 8

Leisure, Labor, and Learning: Gendered Economics and the German Bildungsroman in Kate Chopin's Short Stories and Novels

Martina Jauch

Chapter 9

"Transatlantic Convents, Global Sisterhood: Laywomen and Nuns in Kate Chopin's "Lilacs" and Edna O'Brien's "Sister Imelda"

Francisco José Cortés Vieco

Chapter 10

The Gothic Borderlands: Monstrous Maternity and Hideous, Patriarchal Progeny in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Kate Chopin's The Awakening

Jessie Wirkus Haynes

Part 3: Reflections

Chapter 11

The Narrative Orchestra in Kate Chopin

Anna Maria Farabbi