Kate Chopin News
At Fault is on line!
Kate Chopin's early novel At Fault is now available on line here at the Project Gutenberg site. You can download it or you can read it on line. It's searchable by word or phrase or chapter number, and it's an accurate, trustworthy text.
Kate Chopin Panels at 2008 ALA
The Kate Chopin International Society sponsored two panels--with scholars from America, Europe, and Asia--at the American Literature Association conference in San Francisco on May 22–25, 2008. And a roundtable about the Kate Chopin revival of the 1970s was also on the ALA program. The ALA web site contains full information about the conference.
Panel 1
Kate Chopin: New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity
Moderator: Tom Morgan, University of Dayton
"Failed Hybridity: Creole Identity in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea," JoSann Lien, Idaho State University
"When Désirée's Baby Grows Up: 'Passing' and Erasure in Kate
Chopin's 'Désirée's Baby' and Fannie Flagg's Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!" Abigail L. Montgomery, Blue Ridge Community College
"Rethinking the Myth of the Black Rapist: Kate Chopin and the Erasure of the Black Male," Delores Amorelli, University of Florida
Panel 2
Theoretical Approaches to Kate Chopin
Moderator: Christina Bucher, Berry College
"Regional Aesthetics: The Role of Region in Construction of Gender- and Race-Based Identities and Stereotypes in the Work of Kate Chopin and Grace King," Dagmar Junkova, Charles University, Prague / Loyola University
"Kate Chopin's 'Juanita': Sexual Magnet or Grotesque?" Susan
Koppelman, Independent Scholar
"Chopin's Stories from the Deluzian Perspective: 'The Storm,' 'Story
of an Hour,' and 'A Respectable Woman,'" Ailee Cho, KAIST (Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Panel 3
Roundtable: You Ought to Be In the Canon: How We Helped Kate Chopin In
Moderator: Bernard Koloski, Mansfield University, editor of Approaches to Teaching Chopin's The Awakening, 1988
1. Thomas Bonner Jr., Xavier University of New Orleans, editor of The Kate Chopin Companion, 1986
2. Anna Elfenbein, West Virginia University, author of Women on the Color Line, 1989
3. Barbara C. Ewell, Loyola University of New Orleans, author of the critical study Kate Chopin, 1986
4. Mary E. Papke, University of Tennessee, author of Verging on the Abyss, 1990
5. Helen Taylor, Exeter University, United Kingdom, author of Kate Chopin Portraits, 1979
6. Emily Toth, Louisiana State University, author of the biography Kate Chopin, 1990
New publications about Kate Chopin
According to listings in the Modern Language Association’s International Bibliography, three new publications about Kate Chopin have appeared in 2006 (information for 2007 will be available soon)—by these scholars: Sean Heuston in Explicator; Cristina Giorcelli in Abito e Identità: Ricerche di storia letteraria e culturale, VI; and Hiroko Arima in Beyond and Alone!: The Theme of Isolation in Selected Short Fiction of Kate Chopin, Katherine Anne Porter, and Eudora Welty.
And four Ph.D. dissertations about Kate Chopin appeared in 2006—by these scholars: Cynthia A. Schneider at the University of Nebraska; Virginia Zirkel Massie at Louisiana State University; David Zahm Wehner at the University of Minnesota; and Theresa Defrancis at the University of Rhode Island.
You can find information about these works through the MLA International Bibliography, available online through college and university libraries. For information about the Modern Language Association, click on the MLA link on the left.
The Bibliography adds entries as materials are processed. We will update this list as new information in the bibliography appears.
Kate Chopin in university textbooks
From everything we can tell, Kate Chopin’s work continues to appear in university textbooks of all sorts—in American literature textbooks, of course, but also in textbooks for “Introduction to Literature” courses and for courses that combine literature and writing. One of the latest examples is the third edition of Reading Literature and Writing Argument by Missy James and Alan P. Merickle (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008). The book contains “Désirée’s Baby” and “The Storm.”
Panels about Kate Chopin’s work at the American Literature Association annual conference.
The Kate Chopin International Society sponsored panels about Kate Chopin’s work at the American Literature Association annual conference, May 24 to 27, 2007, at the Westin Copley Place in Boston. The Society held a business meeting at ALA.
This was the schedule for the panels and the business meeting:
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Session 16-I: Reading Kate Chopin in the Town and the Country
Chair: Mary E. Papke, The University of Tennessee
1. “Reading for Realism in the Land of Local Color,” Thomas L. Morgan, University of Dayton
2. “So What Does That Kiss Really Mean? Teaching Chopin and Lesbian Moments in the Bible Belt,” Christina Bucher, Berry College, Rome, GA
3. “Kate Chopin and New Orleans, Past and Present,” Heather Ostman, Empire State College, State University of New York
Sesion 18-M: Business Meeting
Session 19-E: Kate Chopin: Writing in the World
Chair: Heather Ostman, Empire State College, State University of New York
1. “Kate Chopin’s Reputation,” Bernard Koloski, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania
2. “Kate Chopin, Free Love, and ‘Super’-spiritual Influences,” Kathleen Nigro, University of Missouri, St. Louis
3. “Servitude and ‘A Solitary Soul’: Who Works in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening?” Avis Hewitt, Grand Valley State University
A new film based on a Kate Chopin scholar’s work
Emily Toth, who has written about Kate Chopin for many years and who writes the “Ms. Mentor” column for The Chronicle of Higher Education, also wrote a biography of Grace Metalious. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year. You can read about Emily in the March, 2006, Vanity Fair, and in a year or so you will be able to see the film version of her biography of Grace Metalious, which will star Sandra Bullock.
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