Kate Chopin

Race and Gender in Kate Chopin’s Short Story, “Desiree’s Baby”

by Mary Ramsey Evans… While Kate Chopin is most often remembered for her controversial novel, The Awakening (1898), she also wrote almost one hundred short stories, many of them published

Huck & Jim Discussing Solomon

Huck & Jim Discuss Whether King Solomon Was the World’s Wisest Man

The conversations between Huck and Jim about King Solomon are among the most humorous and linguistically complex passages in Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The literary lens of Polyglossia helps

Confederacy of the Dunces – Part III

Part III – Confederacy and Slavery Toole challenges the classic American belief in work and self-improvement by weaving a motif of slavery, exploitation, and indenture through the novel’s storylines. Make