Queer Edna in The Awakening

摘要

As a celebrated American feminist writer,Kate Chopin and her novel The Awakening are always the signal texts for feminist crit icism.Going beyond feminist perspective,this paper tries to interpret the heroine Edna through queer lens,studying the setting of the Cre ole society and Edna' s relationship with Adele Ratignolle and Robert Lebrun,and therefore reveals the tragic woman as an unspoken queer.