{"product_id":"9781643364766-understanding-barbara-kingsolver","title":"Understanding Barbara Kingsolver","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA modern understanding of critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver’s fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe most up-to-date and unified study of critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55183182102902,"sku":"9781643364766","price":98.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_38211798_9c48eb51-7887-4ec1-9271-7f7f9afd8815.jpg?v=1763814167","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781643364766-understanding-barbara-kingsolver","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}