Barbara Kingsolver / editor, Thomas Austenfeld. - Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2010. - ix, 323 p. ; 24 cm. - Critical insights . - Critical insights. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-307) and index.

On Barbara Kingsolver / Biography of Barbara Kingsolver / The Paris review perspective / The political is personal: sociocultural realities and the writings of Barbara Kingsolver / Barbara Kingsolver and the critics / Cultivating our bioregional roots: an ecofeminist exploration of Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal summer / The gothic and the ethnic in Barbara Kingsolver's The bean trees / Gardens of auto parts: Kingsolver's merger of American western myth and Native American myth in The bean trees / The loner and the matriarchal community in Barbara Kingsolver's The bean trees and Pigs in heaven / Trauma and memory in Kingsolver's Animal dreams / Exploring the matrix of identity in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal dreams / Luna moths, coyotes, sugar skulls: the fiction of Barbara Kingsolver / The missionary position: Barbara Kingsolver's The poisonwood bible / The neodomestic American novel: the politics of home in Barbara Kingsolver's The poisonwood bible / The revelatory narrative circle in Barbara Kingsolver's The poisonwood bible / Barbara Kingsolver and Keri Hulme: disability, family, and culture / The southern family farm as endangered species: possibilities for survival in Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal summer / Thomas Austenfeld -- Marilyn Kongslie, Karen L. Arnold -- Katherine Ryder -- John Nizalowski -- Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman -- Christine M. Battista -- Matthew J. Bolton -- Catherine Himmelwright -- Loretta Martin Murrey -- Sheryl Stevenson -- Lee Ann De Reus -- Amanda Cockrell -- Elaine R. Ognibene -- Kristin J. Jacobson -- Anne Marie Austenfeld -- Stephen D. Fox -- Suzanne W. Jones.

9781587656422 (one volume : alk. paper) 1587656426 (one volume : alk. paper)

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Kingsolver, Barbara--Criticism and interpretation.


Women and literature--History--United States--20th century.

PS 3561 .I496 / Z59 2010