Growing up with God and Empire : : A Postcolonial Analysis of Missionary Kid Memoirs / / Stephanie Vandrick.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English
• VerfasserIn: Vandrick, Stephanie,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

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