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Kate Chopin’s The Awakening deals with the conflicting discourse on gender and sexuality proliferating in Nineteenth-Century American society. Published in 1899, the novel deals with the story of Edna Pontellier who is caught between the prevailing ideals of femininity closely associated with domesticity, filial duties and motherhood, as opposed to the more radical ideas of individualism, sexual emancipation and transgressive femininity emerging in the age. The Awakening radically ques

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