Reading and teaching Barbara Kingsolver's Poisonwood Bible as postcolonial
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Título: | Reading and teaching Barbara Kingsolver's Poisonwood Bible as postcolonial |
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Autor/es: | Jussawalla, Feroza |
Palabras clave: | Kingsolver, Barbara | The Poisonwood Bible | Literatura norteamericana | Novela de aprendizaje | Literatura postcolonial |
Fecha de publicación: | nov-2003 |
Editor: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Filología Inglesa |
Cita bibliográfica: | JUSSAWALLA, Feroza. “Reading and teaching Barbara Kingsolver's Poisonwood Bible as postcolonial”. Revista alicantina de estudios ingleses. No. 16 (Nov. 2003), pp. 165-175 |
Resumen: | Can an American writer really be considered a “postcolonial” writer? Can a “White American” writer be considered postcolonial when in fact most theoretical positions associate American Literature with imperialism? Barbara Kingsolver’s Poisonwood Bible demonstrates that despite the ethnicity and nationality of a writer, a work can be considered “postcolonial in intent.” Using the model of the postcolonial bildungsroman, we can see that though Kingsolver’s character Leah is of U.S. nationality, she grows into an “Africanness” that seeks a liberation of the Congo from all forms of oppression, colonial, religious and neocolonial. I would like to posit that looking at the bildungsroman of the main character Leah and her identification with the Congolese, Zairians and Angolans and her effort to see herself as growing up together with Africa and into Africa helps to see her growth as a trope for the suffering of this continent. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/1280 | http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/raei.2003.16.12 |
ISSN: | 0214-4808 |
DOI: | 10.14198/raei.2003.16.12 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Aparece en las colecciones: | Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses - 2003, No. 16 |
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