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1 online resource (260 pages) |
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Transcript lettre |
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Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
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| Contents |
Cover Middlebrow Mission: Pearl S. Buck's American China ; Contents ; Acknowledgments ; An Aromatic Blend of America and China: Introducing Pearl Buck's Middlebrow Mission ; Pearl Buck and the Misssionary Theme ; Pearl Buck in the Context of Middlebrow Literature ; The Critical Dismissal of Pearl Buck |
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1. The Sentimental Imperialism of American Women Missionaries in China American Missionaries as Cultural Imperialists ; Women Missionaries -- Competing Concepts of Womanhood Abroad? ; Women Missionaries and their Home Audiences |
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'The Work of Women for Women': Ambiguities in the Social Gospel Missionary Marriages and the 'Burden of Motherhood' ; The Missionary Home as Empire ; 2. The Exile and Fighting Angel: Pearl Buck's Gendered Critique of Missions |
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The Parents' Representativeness: Introducing Pearl Buck's Recovery Project Between Fact and Fiction: Pearl Buck as a 'New' Biographer ; The American Mother and the Saintly Prophet: The Biographies of Pearl Buck's Missionary Parents |
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Rethinking the Biographies -- Pearl Buck's My Several Worlds "Is there a Case for Foreign Missions?" Pearl Buck's Official Break with the Missionary Movement ; 'Making Use of Missionary Pamphlets'? The Missionary Theme in Buck's Fiction ; 3. Pearl Buck's Coming of Age: East Wind, West Wind |
| Summary |
Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck's engagment with (neo- ) missionary cultures in the United States and China was unique. Against the backdrop of her missionary upbringing, Buck developed a fictional project which both revised and reaffirmed American foreign missionary activity in the Pacific Rim durinjg the 20th century. Vanessa Künnemann accurately traces this project from America's number one expert on China - as Buck came to be known - from a variety of disciplinary angles, placing her work squarely in Middlebrow Studies and New American Studies. -- from back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 17, 2016) |
| Subject |
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 fast |
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Missionaries in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
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Literature
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Missionaries in literature
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China -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024204
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China
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783839431085 |
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3839431085 |
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3837631087 |
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9783837631081 |
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