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Middlebrow mission : Pearl S. Buck's American China / Vanessa K�unnemann.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Lettre (Transcript (Firm))Publication details: Bielefeld : Transcript, 2015.Description: 1 online resource (260 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783839431085
  • 3839431085
  • 3837631087
  • 9783837631081
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No title; No title; Print version:: Middlebrow mission.DDC classification:
  • 813.52 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3503.U198 K55 2015eb
Online resources:
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.
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.
'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.
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.
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 K�unnemann 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.
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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.

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.

'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.

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.

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.

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 K�unnemann 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.

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