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    A Study Guide for Barbara Kingsolver's "Rose-Johnny"
    A Study Guide for Barbara Kingsolver's "Rose-Johnny"
    A Study Guide for Barbara Kingsolver's "Rose-Johnny"
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    A Study Guide for Barbara Kingsolver's "Rose-Johnny"

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    A Study Guide for Barbara Kingsolver's "Rose-Johnny," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535832366
    A Study Guide for Barbara Kingsolver's "Rose-Johnny"

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      A Study Guide for Barbara Kingsolver's "Rose-Johnny" - Gale

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      Rose-Johnny

      Barbara Kingsolver

      1987

      Introduction

      Barbara Kingsolver's Rose-Johnny was her first literary publication. The short story, published in 1987, is about a strange woman with a mysterious past in a small Appalachian farm community. Reputed to be half-man and half-woman, Rose-Johnny is believed to be a lesbian in a time (the 1950s) and place (Kentucky) where such an identity left one marginalized and considered dangerous. The ignorant gossip about the woman is dispelled and the truth uncovered when a young farm girl, Georgeann, befriends her.

      So began Kingsolver's stellar career as a feminist fiction writer, journalist, essayist, poet, and political activist. The author of fourteen books by the early 2010s, Kingsolver's characters and stories come from her wide experiences in Appalachia, the Southwest, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Canary Islands, and they include Native Americans, Hispanics, African Americans, Spanish, South Americans, Africans, and poor and middle-class white Americans who are workers, farmers, mothers, and children. Women and their challenges are her special focus. Community is depicted as important for solving social problems. Known as an idealist for presenting solutions to world problems in her fiction, Kingsolver also tries to live by her own philosophy—for instance, living off the land on her own organic farm. She has won many literary honors, including being short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize for The Poisonwood Bible (1998), and she was presented with the National Humanities Medal by President Bill Clinton in 2000. Rose-Johnny is included in Kingsolver's collection Homeland and Other Stories (1989) as well as New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1988 (1988) and The Kentucky Anthology: Two Hundred Years of Writing in the Bluegrass State (2005).

      Author Biography

      Barbara Ellen Kingsolver was born on April 8, 1955, in Annapolis, Maryland, to Dr. Wendell R. Kingsolver, a navy physician, and Virginia Lee Henry Kingsolver. She was a middle child with an older brother, Rob, who became chairman of the Biology Department at Kentucky Weslyan College, and a younger sister, Ann, who would be an anthropology professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The children grew up in the outdoors in the Appalachian foothills in Carlisle, in eastern Kentucky. Kingsolver took refuge in books and in nature. The parents taught the children the importance of social service to humanity. In grade school, Kingsolver spent two years in a village in the Congo where her father was posted as a public health doctor. This became the personal background for her novel The Poisonwood Bible. Her father also practiced medicine in a convent hospital in Saint Lucia, in the Caribbean, the setting for her story Jump-Up Day (in Homeland and Other Stories).

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