Culture Clash in Animal Dreams

                                                   INTRODUCTION

        American literature is the literature written or produced in the area of the United States

and its preceding colonies. During its early history, America was a series of British colonies on

the eastern coast of the present-day in United States. The literary tradition begins as linked to

the broader tradition of English literature. However, unique American characteristics and the

breadth of its production usually now cause it to be considered a separate path and tradition.

       The 20th century writing was important movements in drama, poetry, fiction and criticism  

took shape in the year before, during after world war I. The eventful period that followed the

war left its imprint upon book all kinds. Literary form of the period were extraordinarily varied,

and in drama, poetry, and fiction the leading authors tended towards radical technical

experiments.

       In the early years of the 20th century, Americans traveling in Europe encountered a vital,

Flourishing theatre; returning home, some of them became active in founding the Little Theatre

movement throughout the country. Freed from commercial limitations, playwrights

experimented with dramatic forms and methods of production, and in time producer, actors

and dramatists appeared who had been trained in college classroom and community

playhouses.

        The important influence on literature, and it shaped the perceptions of readers in the

face of difficult new writing. The period began with a battle between two literary groups, one of

that called its movement New Humanism and Stood for older values in judging literature and

another group that urged that old standard be overthrown and new ones adopted.

      They printed daring or unconventional short stories and published attacks upon established

Writers The Dial(1880-1929), Little Review(1914-1929), Seven Arts(1916-1917) and other

encouraged modernist innovation. The little magazines that helped the growth of the poetry of

the era also contributed to the development of its fiction. Some of the historians, looking back

over the first half of the 20th century, were inclined to think that it was particularly noteworthy

for its literary criticism. Beyond doubt, criticism thrived as it had not for Several Generation.        

       Barbara Kingsolver was born in April (8, 1955), and she grew up in rural Kentucky, where

her father was a physician for the rural poor. As a child, Kingsolver used to beg her mother to

tell her bedtime stories. She soon started to write stories and essays of her own at the age of

nine and she began to keep a journal. She earned degrees in biology from DePauw University in

1977. During her college years, she was involved in the last anti-Vietnam protests. A Few years

later, she obtained a master degree in biology and ecology from the University of Arizona in

Tucson and has worked as a freelance writer and author since 1985. At various times in her

adult life she has lived in England, France, and the Canary Islands, and has worked in Europe,

Africa,  Asia,  Mexico, and South America. She spent two decades in Tucson, Arizona, before

moving to southwestern Virginia where she currently resides.

         She began her career as a writer working on feature articles for magazines, newspaper,

and science journal. Her novel’s have attained both academic and popular success. Kingsolver’s

first novel, The Bean Tree (1988), was followed by Animal Dreams (1988), and then a sequel to

the bean tree, pigs in heaven (1993), the poisonwood bible(1999) for which she was short- listed

for the Pulitzer Prize, and it was followed most recently by Prodigal Summer (2000), is set in

rural Appalachia. The Lacuna (2009), winner of The Orange Prize for this fiction. She also

published a collection of short stories, Homeland and Other Stories (1989) when she wrote the

book at night while pregnant with her first daughter and struggling with insomnia. After the

collection of poetry, Another American(1991), in both Spanish. Along with authoring numerous

novels focusing on the lives of the rural poor of the American southwest, Kingsolver is a political

activist and the author of two nonfiction books are- Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands, 2002,

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle  2007 concerning social and political struggles in the southwest. This

is a true story of the family’s adventures as they move to a farm in rural Virginia and vow to eat

locally for one year.

      Barbara Kingsolver is an Contemporary American novelist, essayist, poet, social activist and

was known for his Best-selling novels. Her cares deeply about the world in which she lives and

the people in it attempted to change the world-to make the world a better place to live in.

Thus, Kingsolver writes about current social issues such as the environment, human rights,

social injustice. Kingsolver’s personal experiences and passions, as well as her love of

southwestern United States, deeply influence her writing. Kingsolver claims to start “every

book, every novel, with a question” in hope of writing her way “ to an answer”. It is appropriate

that the first full- length study of Kingsolver’s fiction should also begin in a reliance on

interrelatedness to explore political issues through empathetic characters and romantic stories

which in turn secured popular appeal.  

        Kingsolver’s novel Animal Dreams have received numerous award and honors. Animal

Dreams was awarded the pen/USA west fiction award and the Edward abbey award for eco-