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Growing up with God and Empire : A Postcolonial Analysis of Missionary Kid Memoirs /
This book analyzes the memoirs of 42 'missionary kids' - the children of North American Protestant missionaries in countries all over the world during the 20th century. Using a postcolonial lens the book explores ways in which the missionary enterprise was part of, or intersected with, the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit :
Multilingual Matters,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Critical Language and Literacy Studies
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book analyzes the memoirs of 42 'missionary kids' - the children of North American Protestant missionaries in countries all over the world during the 20th century. Using a postcolonial lens the book explores ways in which the missionary enterprise was part of, or intersected with, the Western colonial enterprise, and ways in which a colonial mindset is unconsciously manifested in these memoirs. The book explores how the memoirists' sites and experiences are exoticized; the missionary kids' likelihood of learning - or not learning - local languages; the missionary families' treatment of servants and other local people; and gender, race and social class aspects of the missionary kids' experiences. Like other Third Culture Kids, the memoirists are migrants, travelers, border-crossers and border-dwellers who alternate between insider and outsider statuses, and their words shed light on the effects of movement and travel on children's lives and development. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781788922333 9783110604252 9783110603255 9783110604245 9783110603248 9783110606782 |
| Acceso: | restricted access |