SOURCE: Gunning, Sandra. “Rethinking White Female Silences: Kate Chopin's Local Color Fiction and the Politics of White Supremacy.” In Race, Rape, and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890-1912, pp. 108-35. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
In the following essay, Gunning analyzes Chopin's works for evidence of her views on racial violence and stereotypes.
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