Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Vanessa Kunnemann
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Imprint: Transcript Verlag
Dimensions:
Width: 1.50cm
, Height: 0.20cm
, Length: 2.30cm
Weight: 0.992kg
ISBN: 9783837631081
ISBN 10: 3837631087
Pages: 284
Publication Date: 17 November 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Language: English
Reviews
An important and long overdue contribution to the research on Pearl Buckand on Western missions to China in general. Kunnemann 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)
»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) * »An important and long overdue contribution to the research on Pearl Buckand 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) *
"""An important and long overdue contribution to the research on Pearl Buckand 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)"
Author Information
Vanessa Kunnemann (PhD) works as Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Gottingen, Germany. Her research interests include 19th to 21st century American Literature, Asian-American studies, Gender Studies, and Middlebrow Studies.
