For avid readers as well as academics, Sue Monk Kidd: A Collection
of Critical Essays offers seven analytic studies of several of
Kidd's novels, including The Invention of Wings, The Secret Life of
Bees, and The Book of Longings, plus the film version of The Secret
Life of Bees, 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.
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