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Barbara Kingsolver. The Poisonwood Bible. New York: Harper Collins, 1999.
Mary Jean DeMarr. Barbara Kingsolver: A Critical Companion. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999.
Walter Holbling and Justine Tally. The Nature of Hybrid Identity in Barbara Kingsolver's "The Poisonwood Bible". Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2003.
Austenfeld, Anne Marie. "The Revelatory Narrative Circle in Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible" Journal of Narrative Theory - Volume 36, Number 2, Summer 2006, pp. 293-305
Kingsolver explores the nature of marriage when she introduces two characters who have wedded despite their tendency to be mutually destructive. Orleanna Price marries Nathan Price as a young girl, partly because she is in love, and perhaps even...
The beginning of the book finds Orleanna reminiscing on her life in Africa from her current vantage point of Sanderling Island, Georgia. The scene of a woman and her four children offers a vision of rare harmony with the land, where the okapi...
The Poisonwood Bible study guide contains a biography of Barbara Kingsolver, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
The Poisonwood Bible literature essays are academic essays for citation. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of The Poisonwood Bible.