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Growing up with God and empire : a postcolonial analysis of "missionary kid" memoirs / Stephanie Vandrick.
Van Pelt Library BV2094.5 .V36 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vandrick, Stephanie, author.
- Series:
- Critical language and literacy studies ; 25.
- Critical language and literacy studies ; 25
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children of missionaries--Biography--History and criticism.
- Children of missionaries.
- Imperialism.
- Postcolonialism.
- Biography.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 141 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, UK ; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, [2019]
- Summary:
- "This book analyzes the memoirs of 42 'missionary kids' - the children of North American Protestant missionaries in countries all over the world during the 20th century. It explores ways in which the missionary enterprise was part of the Western colonial enterprise, and ways in which a colonial mindset is unconsciously manifested in these memoirs"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The research
- The exotic
- Treatment of local people
- Schooling
- Learning local languages (or not)
- Gender
- Race and social class
- Implications.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781788922326
- 1788922328
- 9781788922319
- 178892231X
- OCLC:
- 1055566747
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