Bayou Folk and a Night in Acadie : Penguin Classics - Kate Chopin

Bayou Folk and a Night in Acadie

By: Kate Chopin

Paperback | 1 March 1999 | Edition Number 1

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In the decade prior to the publication of her landmark novel, THE AWAKENING (1899), Kate Chopin wrote about ninety short stories, a selection of which appeared in BAYOU FOLK (1894) and A NIGHT IN ACADIE (1897). Chopin was deeply influenced by thework of the French and American realists and her portraits of the inhabitants of nineteenth-century New Orleans and Natchitoches Parish offer one of the most compassionate views of life in American realistic fiction. With a gentle and knowing gaze, Chopin evoked the distant world of Louisiana plantations and 'Cadian balls and describes the thoroughly modern complexities of her characters ethnic, gender and sexual identities.
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Short stories of life in Louisiana. Although hints of Chopin's proto-feminist sensibility may be detected by the diligent, what strikes us more is the late-Victorian sentimentality and class-consciousness. Between the ex-slaves at the bottom of the social heap and the plantation owners at the top are the French-speaking Cajuns and various ethnic mixtures, carefully graded by skin colour. Depicting these 'bayou folk' as ignorant, feckless and impulsive, Chopin too often sounds like a South African complaining about her servants. And you need a high tolerance for dialect: 'W'at man dat? I is n' studyin' 'bout no mans; I go 'nough to do wid dis heah washin'.' (Kirkus UK)

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