{"product_id":"sue-monk-kidd-a-collection-of-critical-essays-paperback","title":"Sue Monk Kidd: A Collection of Critical Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDeborah J. Kuhlmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor avid readers as well as academics, \u003ci\u003eSue Monk Kidd: A Collection of Critical Essays\u003c\/i\u003e offers seven analytic studies of several of Kidd's novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Wings\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Life of Bees\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Longings\u003c\/i\u003e, plus the film version of \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Life of Bees\u003c\/i\u003e, to bring expanded perspectives to her work. These literary essays can serve as examples for students of literature, find a place in college English classrooms as well as libraries for both secondary and higher education, and appeal to scholars of American literature. A discourse is launched here regarding Kidd's place in postcolonialism, identity, feminism, voice, perception, spirituality, and humor. Much like other notable Southern authors before her, namely William Faulkner, Kate Chopin, Tennessee Williams, Alice Walker, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Zora Neale Hurston, and Harper Lee, Kidd's vision is more tragedy than morality play or melodrama, closer to Realism but not without Romanticism. These essays reveal how oppression, abuse, abandonment, injustice, and other tragedies find their way into Kidd's novels. The characters' plights are met not with easy or tension-free resolutions, but love, humor, insight, transcendence, and grit are rendered as they struggle with inhumane difficulties. Sue Monk Kidd's worldview is at once inclusive and expansive, transitional and transformative, heartbreaking and healing, and this collection imparts that, inviting more scholarly discourse and investigation of her exceptional works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDEBORAH J. KUHLMANN is a professor of English in the School of Languages and Literature at Wayland Baptist University, where she teaches online courses in writing and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 124\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.29 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 02, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52701918363955,"sku":"9780875658155","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/i0lp-NfMqH9780875658155.webp?v=1763283360","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/sue-monk-kidd-a-collection-of-critical-essays-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}