The racial problem in the literary work of Barbara Kingsolver

The thesis examines the implication of a social scourge as racial discrimination in the literary work of the North American writer Barbara Kingsolver through a socioliterary study which delves deeply into her writings, and after a previous theoretical approach (in the first chapter) to the deplorable incidents which took place in some North American Indian communities in the last centuries.;It consists of six chapters which are preceded by the index and the introduction and followed by the conclusions and the bibliography. From the second to the sixth chapter it is based on a pragmatic study of the causes, the consequences and the development of the theme taking into account the importance of the subject in the author's life and at the same time considering the opinions given by different critics and analysts.;The second chapter, under the title The racial problem in the articles and essays of Barbara Kingsolver, selects and tackles the articles which refer to racial discrimination after maintaining that the first clauses written about the theme are in these. Then it also draws up the characteristics which determine the discrimination of Indian and Mexican-American families in Holding the Line. Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 (published in 1989). In the third one, titled Racial discrimination in Kingsolver's novels. Variety of incidents which introduce a critic point of view on social reality, the racial problem is analysed in her novels specifying the circumstances which bring about a halo of social censure. Chapter four, The social injustice of America in her poetry , explores the subject in her poetical work (Another America ). The fifth chapter, Homeland and Other Stories: Denunciation of xenophobic activities in the first short-stories, treats and explains the criticism of some xenophobic attitudes which are present in Kingsolver's short-stories collection, and the last chapter, titled A Moral Vision. Racial discrimination in "High Tide in Tucson. Essays from Now or Never" , deals with the reflections on the racial problem included in some of these essays.