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Article: The missionary position: Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible.
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- College Literature
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- June 22, 2003
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This essay reveals how Barbara Kingsolver illustrates the hypocrisy of religious rhetoric and practice that sacrifices the many for the good of the few in power, drawing a clear parallel between a missionary's attitude and colonial imperialism. In The Poisonwood Bible, Nathan Price does not represent the missionary profession: he "is a symbolic figure ... suggesting many things about the way U.S. and Europe have approached Africa with a history of cultural arrogance and misunderstanding at every turn." Nonetheless, Kingsolver shows how, contrary to popular opinion, religion and politics compose a combined force used historically not only to "convert the savages" but to ...
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