Seeds of change : critical essays on Barbara Kingsolver / edited by Priscilla Leder.

Other author Leder, Priscilla Gay.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoKnoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2010.
Descriptionviii, 299 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Kingsolver, Barbara--Criticism and interpretation.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Social justice in literature.
Ecology in literature.

Contents Gardens of auto parts : American western myth and Native American myth in The bean trees / Catherine Himmelwright -- To live deliberately : feminist theory in action in High tide in Tucson / Maureen Meharg Kentoff -- Women, a dark continent : The poisonwood bible as a feminist response to Conrad's Heart of darkness / Héloïse Meire -- Trauma and memory in Animal dreams / Sheryl Stevenson -- "Hemmed in" : place, disability, and maternity in Animal dreams and The poisonwood Bible / Breyan Strickler -- "Give me your hand" : accessibility, commitment, and the challenge of cliché in Kingsolver's poetry / Meagan Evans -- Wild Indians : Kingsolver's representation of native America / Robin Cohen -- The white imagination at work in Pigs in heaven / Jeanne Sokolowski -- Imagined geographies / Kristin J. Jacobson -- Earthbound rhetoric and praxis : authentic patriotism in a time of abstractions / Wes Berry -- Remembering our ecological place : environmental engagement in Kingsolver's nonfiction / Christine Cusick -- Contingency, cultivation, and choice : the garden ethic in Prodigal summer / Priscilla Leder -- Celebrating a lively earth : children, nature, and the role of mentors in Prodigal summer / Susan Hanson -- Together at the table : Animal, vegetable, miracle and Thoreau's Wild fruits / Gioia Woods.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010015358
ISBN9781572337190 (alk. paper)
ISBN1572337192 (alk. paper)

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