SOURCE: Elfenbein, Anna Shannon. “Kate Chopin's The Awakening: An Assault on American Racial and Sexual Mythology.” Southern Studies, 26, no. 4 (1987): 304-12.
In the following essay, Elfenbein contends that Chopin challenged American racist and sexist notions about sexuality in The Awakening.
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