KATE CHOPIN E VOGUE: DESAFIOS E NEGOCIAÇÕES NO MERCADO EDITORIAL DE REVISTAS EM FINS DO SÉCULO XIX NOS ESTADOS UNIDOS

Abstract

Kate Chopin (1850 - 1904) was an American writer of great prestige who became acknowledged in the literary tradition, especially after the 1970s, for her feminist works, including books, short stories, poems, and essays. The present work analyses the relationship between the writer and Vogue, a magazine targeted at the female audience, in the late nineteenth century in the United States. Through previous research, it was possible to identify that the writer encountered numerous obstacles to publish her works, mostly short stories that she sent to periodicals managed and edited by men. Kate Chopin has become known for addressing in her work themes such as female freedom and sexuality and the oppression suffered by women in their marriages, to name a few examples. Thus, it is argued in this paper that Vogue contributed to the writer's literary trajectory by offering a space for the dissemination of her literary writings when most of them were rejected for publication by a publishing market that was marked by sexist traditions. The research carried out was bibliographical and considered the contributions of the Feminist Criticism, primarily the reflections raised by authors such as Annette Kolodny (1979), Joan Scott (1989), Janet Beer (1997), Lúcia Zolin (2003), Terry Eagleton (2006), among others. In summary, through the research, it was concluded that Vogue became a space of resistance for Kate Chopin because the writer found in this magazine an opening to convey her more radical writings for the standards of the time. Furthermore, the fact that Vogue published nineteen short stories by Kate Chopin reinforces this argument, indicating a convergence of interests and perspectives between the magazine and the writer.