Pearl S. Buck by Kang Liao
Pearl S. Buck's portrayal of Chinese peasants was the first literary representation, in China as well as in America, of the majority of the Chinese population. Her work changed the image of the Chinese people in the American mind--ultimately facilitating the 1943 repeal of the 61-year-old Chinese Exclusion Act and arousing Americans' support of the Chinese resistance against the Japanese aggression in World War II. From a multicultural point of view, Chinese scholar Kang Liao analyzes Buck's phenomenal success and the ensuing neglect of her works by American critics. Liao's insights into Buck's function as one of the few writers from an age of Eurocentrism who shed light on a new age of multiculturalism will be of interest to both students and scholars interested in race, class, and gender issues.-
Homeric Rhythm
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Fighting Evil
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Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults
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Twenty-Four Ways of Looking at Mary McCarthy
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The Life and Works of Ruskin Bond
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Jane Austen and Eighteenth-Century Courtesy Books
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Literary Selves
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Reluctant Expatriate
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Victorian Writers and the Image of Empire
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Afro-Cuban Literature
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The Myth of Medea and the Murder of Children
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Styles of Ruin
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English Country Life in the Barsetshire Novels of Angela Thirkell
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Seduction and Death in Muriel Spark's Fiction
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Prometheus and Faust
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Demythologizing the Romance of Conquest
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The Novels of Samuel Selvon
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Sitting at the Feet of the Past
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True Relations
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George Orwell
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The Tales We Tell
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James Merrill's Poetic Quest
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Smollett's Women
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Orienting Masculinity, Orienting Nation
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The French Revolution Debate in English Literature and Culture
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Imagining Africa
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In My Own Shire
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Becoming True to Ourselves
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The Second Best Bed
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The Decline of the Goddess
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Writing the Body in D.H. Lawrence
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Samuel Johnson and the Essay
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Child of the Earth
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Caliban in Exile
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Naguib Mahfouz's Egypt
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Goethe in the Twentieth Century
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Dostoevski and the Human Condition After a Century
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There Is No Truer Truth
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Aksel Sandemose
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Elmer Diktonius
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Scenarios of Modernist Disintegration
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The Writer Written
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Interactive Fictions
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Per Olof Sundman
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Darkness at Heart
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The Devil's Advocates
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Writing the Good Fight
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Contemporary Polish Theatre and Drama (1956-1984)
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Women Writers in Russian Literature
KANG LIAO has been Lecturer and Director of English at Beijing Normal University. He has also taught at West Virginia University, State University of New York at New Paltz, and the University of Aberdeen, U.K. His publications include over one hundred encyclopedia entries, and co-translations of Mao: A Biography, The Rise and Fall of Lin Piao, and Fast Reading: A Teaching Manual.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780313301469 |
| ISBN 10 | 0313301468 |
| Title | Pearl S. Buck |
| Author | Kang Liao |
| Series | Contributions To The Study Of World Literature Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Year published | 1997-01-30 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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