Kate Chopin (1850-1904)

Find out what life was like in her time in America:

http://histclo.com/country/us/hist/19/ush19.html

http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj67/morgan.htm

http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/american-history

History of Louisiana: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Louisiana

American suffrage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_States

http://www.history.com/topics/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline1.html

Kate Chopin: http://www.angelfire.com/nv/English243/Chopin.html

http://americanliterature.com/author/kate-chopin/bio-books-stories

Short story elements:

http://www.slideshare.net/guest6bbfe8d/elements-of-plot

How to analyse a short story: http://ndla.no/en/node/9075

The Kate Chopin International Society: http://www.katechopin.org/

In connection with all the stories, discuss the following:

* setting * characters (not only names but what kind of people they are as individuals and as representatives of some group, and how they develop / change) * themes * language * creating local colour * symbols

* the part that would be best suited for the IO, and what kind of global issue would it be connected to

Regionalism and local colour: https://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/lcolor.html

https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/culture-magazines/regionalism-and-local-color-fiction

https://southernspaces.org/2004/local-color/

Close vs distant reading: 

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/an-attempt-to-discover-the-laws-of-literature (When you open it, read it till the end, The New Yorker limits your free access to something like 3 articles a month.)