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Persona Non Grata in Selected American Local Color Short Stories
Abstract
In short stories like Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s “A Village Singer,” Kate Chopin’s “Desiree’s Baby,” and Sarah Orne Jewett’s “A White Heron,” local guests are presented as peace-crashers, intruders, and individuals who play a negative, and even at times, a destructive role in the lives of the female protagonists of the stories. This paper will examine the role such guests play in the above-mentioned stories of local-color writings. Moreover, the paper will bring into light the strategies that the female protagonists use in order to deal with the intrusion of these guests. Respectively, the strategies are rebellion, departure, and affiliating with nature.
Keywords: Persona Non Grata; Intruders; Rebellion; Departure; Nature.
Authors: Ghada Sasa
Doi: https://doi.org/10.47012/jjmll.14.2.13
Cited by: Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literatures (JJMLL) 2022, 14 (2): 455-462
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