Periodical Articles & Essays

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Aanerud, Rebecca. "Fictions of Whiteness: Speaking the Names of Whiteness in U.S. Literature." Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social Cultural Criticism. Ed. Ruth Frankenberg. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. 35-59. On reserve

Asbee, Sue. "The Awakening: Contexts." The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities. Ed. Dennis Walder. London: Routledge, 2001. 269-86. On reserve

Bardot, Jean. "French Creole Portraits: The Chopin Family from Natchitoches Parrish." Kate Chopin Reconsidered. Ed. Lynda S. Boren and Sara de Saussure Davis. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. 26-35. On reserve

Barrish, Phillip. "'The Awakening's' Signifying 'Mexicanist' Presence." Studies in American Fiction Spring 2000:65. Online. InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP. On reserve

Bendel-Simso, Mary M. "Mothers, Women and Creole Mother-Women in Kate Chopin's South." Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South 3.1 (1992): 35-44. On reserve

Birnbaum, Michele. " Alien Hands: Kate Chopin and the Colonization of Race." Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill. Ed. Michael Moon and Cathy N. Davidson. Durham, NC: Duke University Press,1995. 319-341. On reserve

Black, Martha Fodaski. "The Quintessence of Chopinism." Kate Chopin Reconsidered. Ed. Lynda S. Boren and Sara deSaussure Davis. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. 95-113. On reserve

Brightwell, Gerri. "Charting the Nebula: Gender, Language and Power in Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening'." Women and Language Fall 1995:37+. Online. InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP.

Davis, Doris. "The Awakening: The Economics of Tension." Kate Chopin Reconsidered. Ed. Lynda S. Boren and Sara deSaussure Davis. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. 143-153. On reserve

Dingledine, Donald. "Woman Can Walk on Water: Island, Myth, and Community in Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and Paule Marshall's 'Praisesong for the Widow'." Women's Studies March 1993:197+. Online. InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP.

Ewell, Barbara C. "Kate Chopin and the Dream of Female Selfhood." Kate Chopin Reconsidered. Ed. Lynda S. Boren and Sara deSaussure Davis. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. 157-165. On reserve

------. "Unlinking Race and Gender: The Awakening as a Southern Novel." Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South 37.3-4 (1999): 30-37. On reserve

Fluck, Winfried. "Kate Chopin's At Fault: The Usefulness of Louisiana French for the Imagination." Transatlantic Encounters: Studies in European-American Relations. Ed. Udo J. Hebel and Karl Ortseifen. Trier, Germany:Wissenschaftlicher, 1995. 218-231. On reserve

Franklin, Rosemary F. "Poe and 'The Awakening'." The Mississippi Quarterly Winter 1993:47+. Online. InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP.

Harmon, Charles. " 'Abysses of Solitude': Acting Naturally in 'Vogue' and 'The Awakening'." College Literature Fall 1998: 52. Online. InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP.

Hollister, Michael. "Chopin's 'The Awakening'." The Explicator Winter 1994:90+. Online. InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP.

Jacobs, Dorothy H. "The Awakening: A Recognition of Confinement." Kate Chopin Reconsidered. Ed. Lynda S. Boren and Sara deSaussure Davis. Baton Rouge, La: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. 80-94. On reserve

May, John R. "Local Color in The Awakening." Contexts for Criticism. Ed. Donald Keesey. Mountain View, Ca: Mayfield, 1994. 112-117 On reserve

Mahon, Robert Lee. "Beyond the Love Triangle: Trios in 'The Awakening'." The Midwest Quarterly Winter 1998:22+. Online. InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP.

McCoy, Thorunn Ruga. "Chopin's 'The Awakening'." The Explicator Fall 1997:26+. Online. InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP.

Menke, Pamela Glenn. "The Catalyst of Color and Women's Regional Writing: At Fault, Pembroke, and The Awakening." Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South 37.3-4 (1999): 9-20. On reserve

McGee, Diane. "The Structure of Dinners in Kate Chopin's The Awakening." Proteus: A Journal of Ideas 17.1 (2000): 47-51. On reserve

Muirhead, Marion. "Articulation and Artistry: A Conversational Analysis of The Awakening." Southern Literary Journal Fall 2000:42. Online. InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP.

Murfin, Ross C. "The New Historicism and The Awakening." Kate Chopin, The Awakening: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical, Historical and Cultural Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Ed. Nancy Walker. New York: St. Martin's 1993. 257-274. On reserve

Pizer, Donald. "A Note on Kate Chopin's The Awakening as Naturalistic Fiction." Southern Literary Journal Spring 2001:5+. Online. InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP.

Platizky, Roger. "Chopin's 'The Awakening'." The Explicator winter 1995:99+. Online. InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP.

Pontuale, Francesco. "'The Awakening': Struggles Toward L'Ecriture Feminine." The Mississippi Quarterly Winter 1996: 37+. Online. InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP.

Ross, Virginia. "Kate Chopin's Motherless Heroine." Southern Mothers: Fact and Fiction in Southern Women's Writing. Ed. Nagueyalti, Warren and Sally Wolff. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. 51-63. On reserve

Rowe, Anne. "New Orleans as Metaphor: Kate Chopin." Literary New Orleans: Essays and Meditations. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. 29-37. On reserve

Rowe, John Carlos. "The Economics of the Body in Kate Chopin's The Awakening." Kate Chopin Reconsidered. Ed. Lynda S. Boren and Sara deSaussure Davis. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. 117-142. On reserve

Ryan, Steven T. "Depression and Chopin's 'The Awakening'." The Mississippi Quarterly Spring 1998: 253+. Online. InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP.

St. Pierre, Ronald. "Kate Chopin's The Awakening and American Literary Tradition." Shoin Literary Review 28 (1995): 17-24. On reserve

Seidel, Kathryn Lee. "Art Is An Unnatural Act: Mademoiselle Reisz in 'The Awakening'." The Mississippi Quarterly Spring 1993:199-214. Online. InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP. On reserve

Simons, Karen. "Kate Chopin on the Nature of Things." The Mississippi Quarterly Spring 1998: 243+. Online. InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP.

Stange, Margit. "Personal Property: Exchange Value and the Female Self in The Awakening." Genders 5 (1989): 106-119. On reserve

Stipe, Stormy. "The Book That Ruined Kate Chopin's Career." Biblio January 1999:16. Online. InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP.

Toth, Emily. "Kate Chopin's The Awakening as Feminist Criticism." Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South 2.3-4 (1991): 231-241. On reserve

------. "Kate Chopin's New Orleans Years." New Orleans Review 15.1 (1988):53-60. On reserve

Treu, Robert. "Surviving Edna: A Reading of the Ending of The Awakening." College Literature 27.2 (2000): 21-26. On reserve

Wade, Carol A. "Conformity, Resistance, and the Search for Selfhood in Kate Chopin's The Awakening." Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South 37.2 (1999): 92-104. On reserve

Walker, Nancy. "Feminist or Naturalist: The Social Context of Kate Chopin's The Awakening." Contexts for Criticism. Ed. Donald Keesey. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 1994. 59-64. On reserve

Weatherford, K. J. "Courageous Souls: Kate Chopin's Women Artists." American Studies in Scandinavia 26.2 (1994): 96-112. On reserve

Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. "Un-utterable Longing: The Discourse of Feminine Sexuality in 'The Awakening'." Studies in American Fiction Spring 1996:3+. Online. InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP.

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