Kate Chopin and the New South Idea

The end of the post Civil War Reconstruction period introduced many Southern politicians, thinkers and writers who began to analyze the continued problems of the American South considering the future to express a progressive ideology that came to be known as the New South idea. Simultaneously there were new developments in literature with the rise of this New South concept and the trend for local color writing that celebrated the diversity and exceptional character of the region with the use of regional dialect and atmospheric description. Fiction writing in the New South was predominately local color which gave a proud...

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