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Despite the African setting, 'The Poisonwood Bible' can be seen as an attack on American Society. Discuss
Title: Despite the African setting, 'The Poisonwood Bible' can be seen as an attack on American Society. Discuss
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Despite the African setting, 'The Poisonwood Bible' can be seen as an attack on American Society. Discuss
By moving Nathan Price, a missionary from Georgia, and his wife and four children to the Belgian Congo, Kingsolver offers a backdrop that demonstrates the flaws in America's society, especially their religious attitudes and political ideologies at a time when the Congo was seeking its independence. Kingsolver described her novel as a "political allegory"1, and the family as a whole demonstrate this, while individual characters, such as Nathan and Rachel Price more obviously act to …showed first 75 words of 3182 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 3182 total…yet it is a novel that is just as much about America, a portrait, in absentia, of the nation that sent the Prices to save the souls of a people for whom it felt only contempt"8.
1. Barbara Kingsolver, 'Dialogue' section, Kingsolver website
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. 'scmark' - "The Poisonwood Bible" Review
5. Wilson - "The Poisonwood Bible" Review
6. Barbara Kingsolver, 'Dialogue' section, Kingsolver website
7. Wagner-Martin - "The Poisonwood Bible" A Reader's Guide
8. Klinkenborg - "Going Native", New York Times Review - October 18, 1998
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