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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"The Poisonwood Bible"”.
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Authority through Polyvocality in The Poisonwood Bible
I explore how the structure of Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible invites the reader to accept narrators’ authority in different ways depending on their temporal situatedness. I examine how a retrospective, extradiegetic perspective contrasts with limited, homodiegetic and intradiegeitc …
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The Gospel of Cosmopolitanism: Conflict Resolution in Barbara Kingsolver's Fiction
… Though conflict exists in almost all fiction, the way that Kingsolver's characters deal with their situations often speaks louder than any other aspect of her writing. Moreover, though her characters often vary wildly from story to story, their methods of conflict resolution seem to undoubtedly …
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Storied Memories: Memory as Resistance in Contemporary Women's Literature
<p>This dissertation examines the power for resistance contained within narratives of personal memory. By applying current psychological concepts of autobiographical memory theory to eight contemporary women's novels, Carole Maso's The Art Lover; Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale; Dorothy …
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Kingsolver's Poisonwood Bible: Orleanna Breaking the Sequence and the Sentence of Wome's Oppression Through the Use of Women's Culture
… how and why this situation came about feel as if they are ever present in my life. It is easy for me to see the perpetuation of old stereotypes of the-ever-present-stay-at-home-mother-who- constantly-tends-to-the-needs-of-others-without-ever-seeming-to-need-anything- …