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Barbara Kingsolver's world : nature, art, and the twenty-first century / Linda Wagner-Martin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wagner-Martin, Linda, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kingsolver, Barbara--Criticism and interpretation.
- Kingsolver, Barbara.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Since Barbara Kingsolver published The Bean Trees in 1988, her work has been of great interest to readers--first, American readers; then British and South African readers; and finally to readers the world over. With incredible speed, Kingsolver became one of the best-known United States writers, a person who collected honors and awards as if she were a much more mature literary producer. From the beginning Kingsolver touched an elbow of keen interest in her readers: hers was the voice of world awareness, a conscientious voice that demanded attention for the narratives of the disadvantaged, the politically troubled, the humanly silenced. By paying special attention to her non-fiction (essays and books), this new study by renowned literary critic Linda Wagner-Martin highlights the way Kingsolver has become a kind of public intellectual, particularly in the 21st century. It provides fresh readings of each of her novels, stories, and poems."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Contents:
- Flight behavior, dellarobia's bildungsroman
- The innocence of The bean trees
- Pigs in heaven and its interrogation
- Animal dreams, the prototypical ecological novel
- The fiction of Kingsolver's non-novels
- Kingsolver as essayist: a different expertise
- Kingsolver as poet
- The poisonwood Bible as apex
- The prodigality of Prodigal summer
- Traveling to Animal, vegetable, miracle: a year of food life
- The lacuna
- Small wonder: staying alive and the Bellwether prizes
- Flight behavior, our bildungsroman.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-212) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781623566289
- 1623566282
- 9781628927023
- 162892702X
- 9781623567361
- 162356736X
- OCLC:
- 876592386
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