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Middlebrow mission : Pearl S. Buck's American China /
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 Ri...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld :
Transcript,
2015.
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| Colección: | Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.