Seeds of Change: Critical Essays on Barbara Kingsolver

Seeds of Change: Critical Essays on Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolvers books have sold millions of copies. The Poisonwood Bible was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and her work is studied in courses ranging from Englishasasecondlanguage classes to seminars in doctoral programs. Yet, until now, there has been relatively little scholarly analysis of her writings.Seeds of Change: Critical Essays on Barbara Kingsolver, edited by Priscilla V. Leder, is the first collection of essays examining the full range of Kingsolvers literary output. The articles in this new volume provide analysis, context, and commentary on all of Kingsolvers novels, her poetry, her two essay collections, and her fulllength nonfiction memoir, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life.Professor Leder begins Seeds of Change with a brief critical biography that traces Kingsolvers development as a writer. Leder also includes an overview of the scholarship on Kingsolvers oeuvre. Organized by subject matter, the 14 essays in the book are divided into three sections tha deal with recurrent themes in Kingsolvers compositions: identity, social justice, and ecology.The pieces in this groundbreaking volume draw upon contemporary critical approachesecocritical, postcolonial, feminist, and disability studiesto extend established lines of inquiry into Kingsolvers writing and to take them in new directions. By comparing Kingsolver with earlier writers such as Joseph Conrad and Henry David Thoreau, the contributors place her canon in literary context and locate her in cultural contexts by revealing how she reworks traditional narratives such as the Western myth. They also address the more controversial aspects of her writings, examining her political advocacy and her relationship to her reader, in addition to exploring her vision of a more just and harmonious world.Fully indexed with a comprehensive workscited section, Seeds of Change gives scholars and students important insight and analysis which will deepen and broaden their understanding and experience of Barbara Kingsolvers work.

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