{"product_id":"9781623564469","title":"Barbara Kingsolver's World : Nature, Art, and the Twenty-First Century","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eBarbara Kingsolver's World\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Linda Wagner-Martin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince Barbara Kingsolver published \u003ci\u003eThe Bean Trees\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\"Provides detailed analysis of each of Kingsolver’s novels as well as discussion of her non-fiction writing and poetry ... Tracing thematic elements that appear across texts, including working-class women’s labour, motherhood and parenting, interracial working-class communities and tensions, and community responses to social injustice as well as environmental devastation, Wagner-Martin ultimately provides a comprehensive and compelling account of the import of Kingsolver’s work. Because she situates her readings at the conclusions of chapters within recent critical debates, her monograph also provides nice coverage of up-to-date commentary on Kingsolver’s connection to women’s literary history and the political novel of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.\" - \u003ci\u003eThis Year’s Work in English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781623564469\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40623896527054,"sku":"9781623564469","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_4a75a279-7aab-4e3c-a289-2dcd07533141.jpg?v=1638580277","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781623564469","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}