Bayou Folk

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book short story collection

Bayou Folk is a collection of short stories by American author Kate Chopin that vividly portrays life, culture, and complex social relations in late 19th-century Louisiana.

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book → short story collection →
author	Kate Chopin →
contributedToReputationOf	Kate Chopin →
countryOfOrigin	United States of America → surface form: "United States"
depictsTimePeriod	late 19th century →
firstEditionPlaceOfPublication	Boston, Massachusetts → surface form: "Boston"
followedBy	A Night in Acadie →
genre	regional fiction → short stories →
hasForm	prose →
hasIllustrationsBy	Herbert Ward →
hasNarrativePerspective	third-person narration →
hasTargetAudience	adult readers →
hasTheme	cultural identity → individual desire → social constraints → tradition versus change →
hasWorkType	fiction →
isEarlyWorkOf	Kate Chopin →
isStudiedIn	American literature courses →
literaryMovement	American realism →
literarySignificance	early example of local color writing about Louisiana →
literarySubject	Cajun culture → Creole culture → class relations → gender roles → marriage → race relations → rural life →
mediaType	print →
notableStory	"A Gentleman of Bayou Têche" → "A Lady of Bayou St. John" → "A No-Account Creole" → "A Rude Awakening" → "A Visit to Avoyelles" → "For Marse Chouchoute" → "In Sabine" → "La Belle Zoraïde" → "Tante Cat'rinette" →
numberOfStories	23 →
originalLanguage	English →
publicationCentury	19th century →
publicationYear	1894 →
publisher	Houghton Mifflin →
settingLocation	Louisiana →
settingRegion	Southern United States → surface form: "American South"

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

A Night in Acadie → follows → Bayou Folk →

Kate Chopin → notableWork → Bayou Folk →