It is time that we say, infullvoice-with pleasure and abundant thanks-how great has been her influence on our understanding of Chopin's treatment of race. Birnbaum opens her essay "'Alien Hands': Kate Chopin and the Colonization of Race" with an epigraph from Morrison, as does Heather Kirk Thomas in "'The House of Sylvie' in Kate Chopin's 'Athénaïse.'" Catherine Lundie uses Ammons' work with Morrison to inform her own study, "Doubly Dispossessed: Kate Chopin's Women of Color." And there have been others.īut it is time that we give Morrison her full due. Elizabeth Ammons refers to Morrison's essay "Unspeakable Things Unspoken" as she moves from her initial thesis that Edna's freedom was purchased at the price of black women to the position that the novel, "so deliberately repressive of race on its surface" (76), is structured in a way that contradicts this seeming racism. In recent years critics have begun to mention the influence of Toni Morrison on their reading of Kate Chopin's The Awakening. Reading The Awakening with Toni Morrison Joyce Dyer In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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