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

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