凯特·肖班的代表作《觉醒》讲述了主人公埃德娜反抗男权社会的传统道德与价值观念,勇敢走出家庭,寻求爱情和事业的故事。小说体现了后现代女性主义的诸多核心思想,包括消解性别的二元对立,重建女性话语,强调女性经验的多元性等,借此批判了19世纪美国南方父权社会的主流意识形态。 Kate Chopin’s masterpiece, “Awakening,” tells the story of the protagonist Edna rebel against patriarchal society’s traditional moral values ​​and values, bravely out of family, love and career. The novel reflects many core ideas of postmodern feminism, including dipping the binary opposition of gender, rebuilding female discourse, emphasizing the diversity of female experience and so on, thus criticizing the mainstream ideology of patriarchal society in the southern United States in the 19th century.