Désirée’s Baby
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Désirée’s Baby is a short story by Kate Chopin that explores themes of race, identity, and tragic irony in antebellum Louisiana.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story → |
| antagonist | Armand Aubigny → |
| author | Kate Chopin → |
| centralConflict |
identity and ancestry
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racial prejudice within marriage → |
| containsCharacterType |
enslaved people
→
slave owner → |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
→
surface form: "United States"
|
| exploresIssue |
hypocrisy of racist ideology
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maternal love → patriarchal power dynamics → social construction of race → |
| firstPublicationForm | magazine publication → |
| genre |
realist fiction
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short fiction → |
| language | English → |
| literaryMovement |
Realism
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surface form: "American realism"
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| literarySignificance |
frequently anthologized American short story
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important work in Kate Chopin’s oeuvre → important work in studies of race in American literature → |
| mainCharacter |
Armand Aubigny
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Désirée → Désirée’s Baby →
surface form: "Désirée’s baby"
Madame Valmondé → Monsieur Valmondé → |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narrator → |
| narrativeStyle | omniscient narration → |
| plotDevice |
dramatic irony
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twist ending → |
| protagonist | Désirée → |
| settingInstitution | plantation → |
| settingLocation | Louisiana → |
| settingPeriod | antebellum era → |
| settingRegion |
Southern United States
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surface form: "American South"
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| settingSocialContext | slaveholding plantation society → |
| theme |
appearance versus reality
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family → gender roles → identity → marriage → miscegenation → race → racial identity → racism → slavery → social prejudice → tragic irony → |
| workOf | Kate Chopin → |
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