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Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening
A listing of all the works featured in the documentary, including Chopin's novel The Awakening. Also listed are additional short stories not discussed in the program.
The Awakening - Chopin's major work, a novel, was published in Since she was well-established as a national writer of note, it was reviewed by all major national critics, who universally condemned it as "shocking" and "immoral." It is the story of a young matron's gradual awakening to her own sexual and individual "being," and longing for an independence that society would not permit her.
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Athénaïse - A very young, inexperienced girl marries an older man, but finds married life disagreeable. Missing her own home, and especially her brother, she runs away to New Orleans. After discovering that she's pregnant, she re-evaluates her decision.
Lilacs - A former convent girl marries well and moves to Paris, but ultimately enters the world of the demimondaine. She spends a few happy day