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Title:

Seeds of change : critical essays on Barbara Kingsolver / edited by Priscilla Leder.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Tennessee Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

viii, 299 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Kingsolver, Barbara--Criticism and interpretation.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Social justice in literature.
Ecology in literature.

Other Authors:

Leder, Priscilla Gay.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Gardens of auto parts : American western myth and Native American myth in The bean trees / Catherine Himmelwright -- To live deliberately : feminist theory in action in High tide in Tucson / Maureen Meharg Kentoff -- Women, a dark continent : The poisonwood bible as a feminist response to Conrad's Heart of darkness / Héloïse Meire -- Trauma and memory in Animal dreams / Sheryl Stevenson -- "Hemmed in" : place, disability, and maternity in Animal dreams and The poisonwood Bible / Breyan Strickler -- "Give me your hand" : accessibility, commitment, and the challenge of cliché in Kingsolver's poetry / Meagan Evans -- Wild Indians : Kingsolver's representation of native America / Robin Cohen -- The white imagination at work in Pigs in heaven / Jeanne Sokolowski -- Imagined geographies / Kristin J. Jacobson -- Earthbound rhetoric and praxis : authentic patriotism in a time of abstractions / Wes Berry -- Remembering our ecological place : environmental engagement in Kingsolver's nonfiction / Christine Cusick -- Contingency, cultivation, and choice : the garden ethic in Prodigal summer / Priscilla Leder -- Celebrating a lively earth : children, nature, and the role of mentors in Prodigal summer / Susan Hanson -- Together at the table : Animal, vegetable, miracle and Thoreau's Wild fruits / Gioia Woods.

ISBN:

1572337192 (alk. paper)
9781572337190 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)609101074

LCCN:

2010015358

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)