Coloring Locals

Coloring Locals  examines how the late nineteenth-century politics of gender, class, race, and ethnicity influenced Kate Chopin's writing for the major family periodical of her time. Chopin's canonical status as a feminist rebel and reformer conflicts with the fact that one of her most supportive publishers throughout her life was the  Youth's Companion , a juvenile periodical whose thoroughly orthodox “family values” contributed to its success as the longest-running and, at one time,