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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2013  
         
  Article:   THE SENSITIVE BACHELOR AND THE TRIANGLE OF INCEST. GOUVERNAIL IN KATE CHOPIN’S “ATHÉNAÏSE” AND THE AWAKENING.

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  Abstract:  The Sensitive Bachelor and the Triangle of Incest. Gouvernail in Kate Chopin’s “Athénaïse” and The Awakening. This paper proposes a queer re-reading of Gouvernail in “Athénaïse” and in The Awakening. In doing so, it contests Joyce Dyer’s understanding in “Gouvernail, Kate Chopin’s Sensitive Bachelor.” While it agrees with her that “Athénaïse” is based on a love triangle, and Gouvernail’s recitation in The Awakening is of key importance, it claims that the said triangle veils another, incestuous one, and the recitation comments on Gouvernail’s sexual preferences, not the morals of the people around the table.

Keywords: love triangle, incest, homosociality, bisexuality, family, marriage, taboos, homographesis

 
         
     
         
         
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