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.
An Aromatic Blend of America and China: Introducing Pearl Buck''s Middlebrow Mission Kein Zugriff Seiten 11 - 40
1. The Sentimental Imperialism of American Women Missionaries in China Kein Zugriff Seiten 41 - 88
2. The Exile and Fighting Angel: Pearl Buck''s Gendered Critique of Missions Kein Zugriff Seiten 89 - 132
3. Pearl Buck''s Coming of Age: East Wind, West Wind Kein Zugriff Seiten 133 - 162
4. Reversing the Middlebrow: The Good Earth Kein Zugriff Seiten 163 - 198
5. China/Town Hybridity and (Neo-) Missionary Nostalgia: "His Own Country" and Kinfolk Kein Zugriff Seiten 199 - 230
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 Kein Zugriff Seiten 231 - 264
