Article Title
Abstract
In her novel The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver explores this same ethnocentric missionary zeal when critiquing the ways in which Western countries relate to “foreign” countries. She creates an allegory where the Price Family and the Congolese people are a microcosm of the United States and its relations to “foreign” countries. In this allegory, Kingsolver suggests that the attempt of the U.S. to change what it does not understand can be detrimental and unethical – that the attempt to spread an ethical system becomes the most unethical idea of all.
Recommended Citation
Wind, Laura
(2008)
"Cultural relativism in the Poisonwood Bible,"
Reason and Respect: Vol. 1:
Iss.
2, Article 6.
Available at:
https://docs.rwu.edu/rr/vol1/iss2/6
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