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Middlebrow Mission : Pearl S. Buck's American China
- Title
- Middlebrow Mission : Pearl S. Buck's American China / Vanessa Künnemann.
- Author
- Künnemann, Vanessa
- Publication
- Bielefeld : Transcript, [2015]
- ©2015
- Supplementary Content
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Details
- Description
- 283 pages; 23 cm
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Lettre
- Uniform Title
- Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Hannover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283).
- Contents
- An aromatic blend of America and China: Introducing Pearl Buck's middlebrow mission -- 1. The sentimental imperialism of American women missionaries in China -- 2. The Exile and Fighting Angel: Pearl Buck's gendered critique of missions -- 3. Pearl Buck's Coming of Age: East Wind, West Wind -- 4. Reversing the Middlebrow: The Good Earth -- 5. China/Town hybridity and (Neo- ) Missionary notalgia: "His own country" and kinfold -- 6. Coda: "We haven't deserted him exactly, we just haven't known how to fit him in." The missionaray legacy in Pearl Buck and her fiction.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-10736
- ISBN
- 9783837631081
- 3837631087
- 3839431085
- 9783839431085
- LCCN
- 9783837631081
- OCLC
- 930609622
- Author
- Künnemann, Vanessa, author.
- Title
- Middlebrow Mission : Pearl S. Buck's American China / Vanessa Künnemann.
- Publisher
- Bielefeld : Transcript, [2015]
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- LettreLettre (Transcript (Firm))
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283).
- Connect to:
- Other Form:
- Online version: Künnemann, Vanessa. Middlebrow mission. Bielefeld : Transcript, 2015 9783839431085 (OCoLC)932592880
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9783837631081
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-10736