Middlebrow Mission Pearl S Buck American China 1st Edition by Vanessa Künnemann ISBN 3839431085 9783837627640

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ISBN 10: 3839431085
ISBN 13: 9783837627640
Author: Vanessa Künnemann

Middlebrow Mission Pearl S Buck American China 1st Edition Table of contents:

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
Pearl Buck’s Rise on the American Literary Scene and the Publication Background of East Wind, West Wind
The Style and Narrative Perspective of East Wind, West Wind
The Missionary Husband and the Practice of Footbinding
4. Reversing the Middlebrow: The Good Earth
The Marketing and Reception of The Good Earth
The Good Earth as a Depression Novel
The Iconicity of O-lan
5. China/Town Hybridity and (Neo-) Missionary Nostalgia:His Own Country” and “Kinfolk
“His Own Country” – The Return to One’s ‘Roots’?
‘Showing what it is to be Chinese’: Staging China/Town in Kinfolk
The ‘Elegant Fake’: Enter Dr Liang
“We must show this vast new country what it is to be Chinese”: Dr Liang as an ‘Old’ Missionary
‘Dissolving the Beautiful Cloud of Confucianism’: The Neo-Missionaries in China
‘Belonging to all of them’: Mrs Liang and the Promise of Hybridity?
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
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