Middlebrow Mission: Pearl S. Buck's American China
Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck's engagement 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 during 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.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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An Aromatic Blend of America and China: Introducing Pearl Buck's Middlebrow Mission
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1. The Sentimental Imperialism of American Women Missionaries in China
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2. The Exile and Fighting Angel: Pearl Buck's Gendered Critique of Missions
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3. Pearl Buck's Coming of Age: East Wind, West Wind
Seiten 133 - 162 -
4. Reversing the Middlebrow: The Good Earth
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5. China/Town Hybridity and (Neo-) Missionary Nostalgia: "His Own Country" and Kinfolk
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6. Coda: "We haven't deserted Him exactly, we just haven't known how to fit Him in." The Missionary Legacy in Pearl Buck and her Fiction
Seiten 231 - 264 -
Works Cited
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ARCHIVAL SOURCES
Seiten 283 - 284
17. November 2015, 284 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-3108-1
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