Linda Wagner-Martin

Barbara Kingsolver's World (eBook, PDF)

Nature, Art, and the Twenty-First Century

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Since Barbara Kingsolver published The Bean Trees in 1988, her work has been of great interest to readers-first, American readers; then British and South African readers; and finally to readers the world over. With incredible speed, Kingsolver became one of the best-known United States writers, a person who collected honors and awards as if she were a much more mature literary producer.

From the beginning Kingsolver touched an elbow of keen interest in her readers: hers was the voice of world awareness, a conscientious voice that demanded attention for the narratives of the disadvantaged, the politically troubled, the humanly silenced. By paying special attention to her non-fiction (essays and books), this new study by renowned literary critic Linda Wagner-Martin highlights the way Kingsolver has become a kind of public intellectual, particularly in the 21st century. It provides fresh readings of each of her novels, stories, and poems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781623567361
• Artikelnr.: 48421220

Autorenporträt

Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. She was the 2011 recipient of the Hubbell Medal for lifetime service in American literature (sponsored by the MLA), and has received the Guggenheim fellowship, the senior National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, the Bunting Institute fellowship, and awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Philosophical Association and others. She has published more than eighty-five books of criticism, some edited, including Sylvia Plath: A Biography (1987) and "Favored Strangers": Gertrude Stein and Her Family (1995), as well as studies of Ernest Hemingway, Zelda Fitzgerald, Barbara Kingsolver, and others. Recent books are A History of American Literature from 1950 to the Present (2013) and Toni Morrison and the Maternal (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Flight Behavior: Dellarobia's Bildungsroman
2. The Innocence of The Bean Trees
3. Three Pigs in Heaven and Its Interrogation
4. Animal Dreams, a Prototypical Ecological Novel
5. The Fiction of Kingsolver's Non-novels
6. Kingsolver as Essayist-A Different Expertise
7. Seven Kingsolver as Poet
8. The Poisonwood Bible as Apex
9. The Prodigality of Prodigal Summer
10. Traveling to Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
11. Small Wonder: Staying Alive and the Bellweather Prizes
12. The Lacuna
13. Flight Behavior, Our Bildungsroman
14. Unsheltered
15. Demon Copperhead
Bibliography
Index