Understanding Barbara Kingsolver (Understanding Contemporary American Literature) - Softcover

Tan, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1643364774 ISBN 13: 9781643364773

Verlag: University of South Carolina Press, 2024

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The most up-to-date and unified study of critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver

In Understanding Barbara Kingsolver, Ian Tan situates Kingsolver's oeuvre in an ecocritical and ecofeminist context and argues that her work puts forward an ethics of difference that informs a more egalitarian vision of the world. Following a brief biography, Tan explores ecocriticism as a literary strategy and analyzes Kingsolver's early nonfiction book, Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983, as an entry point to her thematic interests. Subsequent chapters attend to Kingsolver's nine novels, including her breakout The Poisonwood Bible and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Demon Copperhead, and the ways they engage with some of the most important issues of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including postcolonialism and climate change. This book shows how Kingsolver gives her readers the aesthetic tools to begin to see the familiar and the ordinary in a different light, allowing idealism to enrich our everyday lives.

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Ian Tan is Assistant Professor of English. His research interests include the contemporary novel, literature and philosophy, and recent film. He is the author of Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger: Poetry as Appropriative Proximity as well as an upcoming book on the contemporary Irish novel. He is Associate Editor of The Wallace Stevens Journal.

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• Verlag: University of South Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1643364774
• ISBN 13: 9781643364773
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 146
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