Critical Insights: Barbara Kingsolver

Publisher Salem Press

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Salem Press

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Copyright

2009

ISBN13

9781587656439

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

This volume brings together a set of materials to serve both as an introduction to Barbara Kingsolver's writings and as a guide to scholarly readings of her work. The volume begins with a general introduction to Kingsolver's life and work that provides a context for the beginning reader. Biographical data shedding light on her fiction and essays are provided in the sketch by Marilyn Kongslie and Karen L. Arnold.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
Career, Life, and Influence.
1: On Barbara Kingsolver.
2: Biography of Barbara Kingsolver.
3: The Paris Review Perspective.
Critical Contexts.
4: The Political Is Personal: Sociocultural Realities and the Writings of Barbara Kingsolver.
5: Barbara Kingsolver and the Critics.
6: Cultivating Our Bioregional Roots: An Ecofeminist Exploration of Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer.
7: The Gothic and the Ethnic in Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees.
Critical Readings.
8: Gardens of Auto Parts: Kingsolver's Merger of American Western Myth and Native American Myth in The Bean Trees.
9: The Loner and the Matriarchal Community in Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven.
10: Trauma and Memory in Kingsolver's Animal Dreams.
11: Exploring the Matrix of Identity in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams.
12: Luna Moths, Coyotes, Sugar Skulls: The Fiction of Barbara Kingsolver.
13: The Missionary Position: Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible.
14: The Neodomestic American Novel: The Politics of Home in Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible.
15: The Revelatory Narrative Circle in Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible.
16: Barbara Kingsolver and Keri Hulme: Disability, Family, and Culture.
17: The Southern Family Farm as Endangered Species: Possibilities for Survival in Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer.
Resources.
18: Chronology of Barbara Kingsolver's Life.
19: Works by Barbara Kingsolver.
20: Bibliography.
Critical Insights.
About the Editor.
About The Paris Review.
Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Index.
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