Growing up with God and Empire : : A Postcolonial Analysis of Missionary Kid Memoirs / / Stephanie Vandrick.
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. Using a postcolonial lens the book explores ways in which the missionary enterprise was part of, or intersected with, the...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English |
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Place / Publishing House: | Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Critical Language and Literacy Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editors' Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Research -- 3. The Exotic -- 4. Treatment of Local People -- 5. Schooling -- 6. Learning Local Languages (or Not) -- 7. Gender -- 8. Race and Social Class -- 9. Implications -- A Personal Epilogue -- References -- Index |
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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. Using a postcolonial lens the book explores ways in which the missionary enterprise was part of, or intersected with, the Western colonial enterprise, and ways in which a colonial mindset is unconsciously manifested in these memoirs. The book explores how the memoirists' sites and experiences are exoticized; the missionary kids' likelihood of learning - or not learning - local languages; the missionary families' treatment of servants and other local people; and gender, race and social class aspects of the missionary kids' experiences. Like other Third Culture Kids, the memoirists are migrants, travelers, border-crossers and border-dwellers who alternate between insider and outsider statuses, and their words shed light on the effects of movement and travel on children's lives and development. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781788922333 9783110604252 9783110603255 9783110604245 9783110603248 9783110606782 |
DOI: | 10.21832/9781788922333 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Stephanie Vandrick. |