New Visions of Community in Contemporary American Fiction: Tan, Kingsolver, Castillo, Morrison

Contents

vii Acknowledgments One 1 Introduction: Rethinking Community for the Twenty-First Century Two 39 Choosing Hope and Remaking Kinship: Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club Three 73 Negotiating Collectivities: Barbara Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven Four 113 Collective Liberation and Activism via Spirituality: Ana Castillo’s So Far from God Five 151 The Call to Love, to Assert Power with Others: Toni Morrison’s Paradise Six 185 Conclusion: Looking to the Future 195 Notes 221 Bibliography 237 Index Contents ...