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Critique Studies in Contemporary Fiction· 2026Q1

The Paperwork of Poverty: Administrative Violence, Bodily Precarity, and Self-Narration in Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead

Qijun Liu

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Barbara Kingsolver's 'Demon Copperhead' represents poverty not as mere deprivation, but as a system managed through bureaucratic, medical, and documentary procedures, termed the 'paperwork of poverty'.

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