30.456, Books: Growing up with God and Empire: Vandrick

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Subject: 30.456, Books: Growing up with God and Empire: Vandrick

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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 17:47:01
From: Flo McClelland [flo at multilingual-matters.com]
Subject: Growing up with God and Empire: Vandrick

 


Title: Growing up with God and Empire 
Subtitle: A Postcolonial Analysis of ‘Missionary Kid’ Memoirs 
Series Title: Critical Language and Literacy Studies  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
	   http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781788922319 


Author: Stephanie Vandrick

Hardback: ISBN:  9781788922326 Pages: 160 Price: U.S. $ 129.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781788922326 Pages: 160 Price: U.K. £ 89.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781788922319 Pages: 160 Price: U.S. $ 34.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781788922319 Pages: 160 Price: U.K. £ 24.95


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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