Pearl S. Buck : a cultural biography
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Pearl S. Buck : a cultural biography
Cambridge University Press, 1998
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Originally published: 1996
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
One of the most popular novelists of the twentieth century, winner of a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize for Literature and an active social and political campaigner, particularly in the field of women's issues and Asian-American relations, Pearl Buck has, until now, remained 'hidden in public view'. Best known, perhaps, as the prolific author of The Good Earth, Buck led a career which extended well beyond her eighty works of fiction and non-fiction and deep into the public sphere. In this critically acclaimed biography, Peter Conn retrieves Pearl Buck from the footnotes of literary and cultural history and reinstates her as a figure of compelling and uncommon significance in twentieth-century literary, cultural and political history.
Table of Contents
- Preface: Rediscovering Pearl Buck
- 1. Missionary childhood
- 2. New worlds
- 3. Winds of change
- 4. The Good Earth
- 5. An exile's return
- 6. The prize
- 7. Wartime
- 8. Losing battles
- 9. Pearl Sydenstricker.
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