Claim of self-liberation in Feminine Creole fiction: a New Vision of Individualism driven by Naturalism
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In the United States of America, French literature is known through Henry Greville, George Sand et Victor Cherbuliez 1 , whose novels tend to shape heros. Naturalism, especially with the voice of Émile Zola, tends to reshape this idea of the main character who would be the hero. As early as 1877, when no English translation of L'Assommoir is yet available, an anonymous article states: " heroine is a washer-woman and the heroin so far as there is a hero-is a roof-mender." 2 The cultural gap challenges the vision of individuals in fiction: there should be a "hero," in the Romantic concept. We can infer that Zola's novel challenges the culture of a new world on a deeper level. Indeed, in this era where the self-made man triumphs over the crowd, American culture meets a philosophical disagreement with naturalism. It is when the concept of the "American Dream" was built before being theorized by the historian Truslow 3. We intend to study of Kate Chopin (1850-1904) and Léona Queyrouze (1860-1904) take part on this thinking by glorifying the individuality in the Romantic sense. Nevertheless, the literary movement spread across the Western World 4 and included authors such as Henry James, Stephen Crane, and Theodore Dreiser, all three from the 1
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