SOURCE: McCullough, Kate. “Kate Chopin and (Stretching) the Limits of Local Color Fiction.” In Regions of Identity: The Construction of America in Women's Fiction, 1885-1914, pp. 185-226. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1999.
In the following essay, McCullough attempts to show how Chopin both challenged and reinforced the status quo of Southern regional writing.
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