{"product_id":"understanding-barbara-kingsolver-9781643364773","title":"Understanding Barbara Kingsolver","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe most up-to-date and unified study of critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Barbara Kingsolver\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003e Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983, \u003c\/i\u003e as an entry point to her thematic interests. Subsequent chapters attend to Kingsolver's nine novels, including her breakout\u003ci\u003e The Poisonwood Bible\u003c\/i\u003e and the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eDemon Copperhead\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ian Tan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/11\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Understanding Contemporary American Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643364773","brand":"University of South Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44136457502857,"sku":"9781643364773","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_653324c5-e4dd-4f36-9a4b-4fdcb6b6f039.jpg?v=1748396489","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/understanding-barbara-kingsolver-9781643364773","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}