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‘Désirée’s Baby’ is Kate Chopin’s short story set in Louisiana before the American Civil War. It follows a baby whose ancestry sparks a profound racial crisis between a husband and wife, exposing tensions of miscegenation and Creole identity in the ante‑bellum South.
First publish date: 2008
Genre: General Fiction/Short Stories
Authors: Kate Chopin
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