Understanding Barbara Kingsolver - Brossura

Tan, Ian

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ISBN 10: 1643364774 ISBN 13: 9781643364773

Casa editrice: Univ of South Carolina Pr, 2024

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull'autore

Ian Tan is assistant professor of English, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the author of Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger: Poetry as Appropriative Proximity and Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel: Order, Form, and Creative Un-Doing.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of South Carolina Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1643364774
• ISBN 13: 9781643364773
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 135
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