Stephanie Vandrick
Author
Language
English
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...