A Spiritual Feminist Literary Reading of Kate Chopin's The Awakening: Consciousness, Ethical Agency, and Incomplete Becoming

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This paper applies Spiritual Feminist Literature (SFL) to Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, examining Edna Pontellier’s gendered condition, consciousness, self-recognition, ethical agency, transformation, and incomplete becoming. It argues that Edna undergoes genuine transformation, but her awakening does not produce sustainable freedom or complete ethical resolution.

Abstract by Mukata Dangi, as published on Zenodo. CC BY 4.0.