Kate Chopin Around the World - by Heather Ostman (Hardcover)

About the Book

This collection brings a fresh, international lens to Chopin studies. The essays reflect on the experience of studying and teaching Chopin in countries outside of the United States, as well as frame studies of particular Chopin stories-including some lesser-known stories-within specific cultural contexts.

Book Synopsis

This collection brings a fresh, international lens to Chopin studies. The essays reflect on the experience of studying and teaching Chopin in countries outside of the United States, as well as frame studies of particular Chopin stories-including some lesser-known stories--within specific cultural contexts.

Review Quotes

"In just over half a century since the Kate Chopin revival of the 1960s, when her novels and stories were available only in English, her fiction, especially The Awakening, has been translated into twenty-four languages and published across the world. Authoritative Chopin scholar, Heather Ostman has introduced and edited this ground-breaking collection of critical essays documenting Chopin's published international presence by leading scholars Bernie Koloski (France), Helen Taylor (Britain), Heidi M. Podlasli (Germany), and Eulalia Piñero Gil (Spain) as well as by newer critical voices from Russia, Italy, South Asia, and Qatar. This is a milestone volume, reflecting Chopin's arrival on the world's stages. "

"Ostman's volume confirms that for nearly the last century, Chopin's work has traveled the globe, garnering more interest across continents than the author of local color fiction ever could have hoped to achieve in her lifetime. Although informed by her European ancestry and American birth, Chopin's fiction does not belong to any one nation; its explorations of the tensions between individual freedoms and cultural institutions contain endless uses for audiences across time and place."

About the Author

Heather Ostman is director of the Humanities Institute and the Humanities Curriculum Chair, as well as professor of English at SUNY Westchester Community College.