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Mark Twain And Kate Chopin's The Awakening

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Mark Twain and Kate Chopin were experts at creating regionalist works. Regionalism refers to texts that concentrate heavily on specific, unique features of a certain region including dialect, customs, tradition, topography, history, and characters. It focuses on the formal and the informal, analyzing the attitudes characters have towards one another and their community as a whole. The narrator is particularly important in regionalist fiction for he or she serves as a translator, making the region understandable for the reader.
Kate Chopin also employs regionalism in her work The Awakening. However, Chopin 's regionalism is slightly different than Mark Twain 's regionalism. While Twain looks to glorify the region, he writes about, Chopin
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