The Subject Struggling in the Lacuna: An Analysis ofThe Lacuna from the Perspective of Cultural Materialism

An analysis of the novel The Lacuna by the contemporary American woman writer Barbara Kingsolver from the perspective of cultural materialism intends to probe into the struggling of the protagonist so as to represent the dynamic process between the active subject and the suppressing political cultural structures by placing the subject back into history. It portrays the anguish of the subject struggling in the lacuna of the reality of mis-positioning and the dream of rootedness, illustrates his agency in witnessing and making history by living in the world of the great and the common, and elaborates on his great efforts to show his subjectivity by bridging the gap between art and politics.