Middlebrow Mission: Pearl S. Buck's American China

Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck's engagement 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 during 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.

Info autore

Vanessa Künnemann (PhD) works as Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Göttingen, Germany. Her research interests include 19th to 21st century American Literature, Asian-American studies, Gender Studies, and Middlebrow Studies.

Relazione

»An important and long overdue contribution to the research on Pearl Buck and on Western missions to China in general. Künnemann manages to position herself within a densely populated academic field, taking stock of her forerunners work. The depth of the primary and secondary research will make future work on Buck much easier.«
Dominika Ferens, Amerikastudien, 62/1 (2017) 20170712

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Vanessa Künnemann
• Editore: Transcript
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.11.2015
• EAN: 9783837631081
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-3108-1
• Pagine: 284
• Dimensioni: 147 mm x 226 mm x 17 mm
• Peso: 457 g
• Serie: Lettre; Lettre
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze umane, tematiche generali; Literaturwissenschaft, Englisch, USA, China, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Kulturwissenschaften, Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000, Cultural Studies, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren, Populärkultur, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Wissenschaft / Kulturwissenschaften, Amerikanistik / Literaturwissenschaft, England / Sprache, Trivialkultur, Amerika (USA), China / Literatur, 20th Century American Literature; Gender; Middlebrow Studies; Missionary Cultures; Literature; American Studies; General Literature Studies; Interculturalism; British Studies; Literary Studies