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Beyond The Good Earth - Transnational Perspectives on Pearl S. Buck (Paperback)
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Beyond The Good Earth - Transnational Perspectives on Pearl S. Buck (Paperback)
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How well do we really know Pearl S. Buck? Many think of Buck solely
as the Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Good
Earth, the novel that explained China to Americans in the 1930s.
But Buck was more than a novelist and interpreter of China. As the
essays in Beyond The Good Earth show, she possessed other passions
and projects, some of which are just now coming into focus. Who
knew, for example, that Buck imagined and helped define
multiculturalism long before it became a widely known concept? Or
that she founded an adoption agency to locate homes for biracial
children from Asia? Indeed, few are aware that she advocated
successfully for a genocide convention after World War II and was
ahead of her time in envisioning a place for human rights in
American foreign policy. Buck's literary works, often dismissed as
simple portrayals of Chinese life, carried a surprising degree of
innovation as she experimented with the styles and strategies of
modernist artists. In Beyond The Good Earth, scholars and writers
from the United States and China explore these and other often
overlooked topics from the life of Pearl S. Buck, positioning her
career in the context of recent scholarship on transnational
humanitarian activism, women's rights activism, and civil rights
activism.
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