Postmodernism

The Postmodernism literary criticism is mainly focused on how relatively and unconventional narrative methods are used in the book - postmodernism is considered to start after World War II. This is particularly applicable to the The Poisonwood Bible, which was set in the 1960's and published in the 1990's. One of the more distinctive features is the 5 narrator system, Orleanna starting off each section and her four girls narrating the subsequent chapters. This also highlights the fact that father, Nathan Price, has no voice at all. None of the villagers have a direct voice in the book either. The restricted viewpoint, different flavors of American women, emphasize the lack of knowledge and misconceptions the Americans had it terms of the Africans.