{"product_id":"understanding-barbara-kingsolver-9781643364773","title":"Understanding Barbara Kingsolver","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe most up-to-date and unified study of critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIan Tan \u003c\/b\u003eis assistant professor of English, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the author of\u003ci\u003e Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger: Poetry as Appropriative Proximity \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel: Order, Form, and Creative Un-Doing.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of South Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50402359116050,"sku":"9781643364773","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_98f5d578-ba23-46e5-b9bb-d742543b59f6.jpg?v=1729153679","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/understanding-barbara-kingsolver-9781643364773","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}