Growing up with God and Empire : A Postcolonial Analysis of 'Missionary Kid' Memoirs Paperback / softback
by Stephanie Vandrick
Part of the Critical Language and Literacy Studies series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Multilingual Matters
- Publication Date:07/12/2018
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- ISBN:9781788922319
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Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Multilingual Matters
- Publication Date:07/12/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781788922319