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Middlebrow Mission : Pearl S. Buck's American China / Vanessa Künnemann.

Title
Middlebrow Mission : Pearl S. Buck's American China / Vanessa Künnemann.
Author
Künnemann, Vanessa
Publication
  • Bielefeld : Transcript, [2015]
  • ©2015

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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))
Alternative Title
Pearl S. Buck's American China
Subject
  • Buck, Pearl S. 1892-1973 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Missions in literature
  • American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Chinese Americans > Intellectual life
  • Missions, American > China > History
  • China > In literature
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Hannover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9783837631081
  • 9783839431085 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
  • 930609622
  • SCSB-12283767
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library