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Min, Kyung-taek. “A Female Self-consciousness and Identity Conflict in Kate Chopin's The Awakening.” Modern Studies in English Language & Literature 52.4 (2008): 79-97. Kate Chopin's The Awakening is considered as one of the most important texts of American feminist literary canon. But when this book was published, many critics condemned it for immoral and amoral contents against the social conventional standard. In the late 19th century, most women by law and custom were not only dependent upon men but also regarded as a part of their properties. Most women have no suffrage as well as property right. At the turn of the century, political and social activities for women's right began to increase. Under such social background, Chopin revealed women's limited and oppressed situation by putting Edna, the protagonist of The Awakening, against the conventions of the day. Because she starts to feel her identity as an individual being after her sexual self-awakening, Edna challenges social oppression ordained unilaterally on women by phallocentric society. Edna suffers severe identity conflicts between her own identity and others like her husband and children. Although her challenge fails with her suicide, her liberal spirit against women's suppression will be forever.(Chundnam National University)
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Kate Chopin, The Awakening, Edna, self-awakening, women's suppression, identity conflicts
