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Kingsolver in the jungle, Catullus & Wolfe at the door
Leonard, John | January 11, 1999 issue

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The article focuses on the book "The Poisonwood Bible," by Barbara Kingsolver. The Poisonwood Bible is not a Safari Novel. Her village, her river, her forest and her snake aren't symbol dumps or Rorschach tests or manhood rites or local-color souvenirs-nor a pilgrim's gasbag progress past Pygmies to afflatus. An intelligence in transit will invest itself in and be exacerbated by particulars of place; the North American is unmoored, unmasked, astigmatic and complicit; the woman is decoupled, unchosen, rewound; a shadow world of the geopolitical sand the clandestine rolls over domestic scruple.

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POISONWOOD Bible, The (Book); KINGSOLVER, Barbara; TRAVEL; RIVERS; TREES; RITES & ceremonies; RORSCHACH Test
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