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Introduzione [a: Sguardi interculturali: Pearl S. Buck e la Cina]
No full textSguardi interculturali. Pearl S. Buck e la Cina si propone di collocare l’operazione artistica e culturale di Pearl S. Buck in una prospettiva transnazionale. I saggi qui raccolti offrono una lettura innovativa dell’eredità letteraria della scrittrice, mettendo in primo piano la ricezione transnazionale della sua opera e il ruolo svolto dalla letteratura nella percezione occidentale della Cina repubblicana
The Pearl S. Buck Manuscripts Collection and the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation
No full textThe Pearl S. Buck Birthplace preserves the birthplace home of the author Pearl S. Buck and interprets her life from its humble origins in the Appalachian town of Hillsboro, West Virginia to her rise to international recognition as a Nobel Prize winning author. The house museum educates visitors on the early experiences of Pearl\u27s life that helped shape some of the major characters and plotlines of her books. The Pearl S. Buck Birthplace is also a cultural asset for the Hillsboro community, providing opportunities for education, recreation and economic development. This presentation will provide a brief history of the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation, the Birthplace Museum, and how the PSBBF came to be the owners and stewards of Ms. Buck’s original manuscript collection. The talk will present Ms. Buck’s views on her place of birth and her stated desires for the manuscript collection and the Birthplace to become “…a gateway to new thoughts and dreams and ways of life!
Author Pearl S. Buck, 1965-66 Artist Lecture Series, Chapman College, Orange, California
No full textAuthor Pearl S. Buck, 1965-66 Artist Lecture Series, Chapman College, Orange, California, October 10, 1965. Winner of both Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes in Literature.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cu_events/1035/thumbnail.jp
Traduzione e ricezione dell’opera di Pearl S. Buck in Cina
No full textThe Translation and Reception of Pearl S. Buck in China is a process which started in the 1930s and lasts until today. Its development was entangled with the cultural history of China and involved different actors such as: the writer herself, the translators (often representing a cultural elite) and the public (the readers). Drawing on Chinese academic sources, this paper highlights and discusses different phases in this process
Pearl S. Buck Collaborative: Papers, Places and Partners
No full textNobel and Pulitzer prizewinning author Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) is well known for her fiction and nonfiction drawing largely upon her experiences growing up in China, the daughter of American Presbyterian missionaries. Less well known is the profound influence of her family heritage and birthplace in southern West Virginia on her life and work, and which led her to place her literary manuscripts in the care of the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation in Hillsboro, WV, shortly before her death. In 2014, a collaboration was formed between the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation, West Virginia University and West Virginia Wesleyan College to open this little known but priceless resource -- the Pearl S. Buck Literary Manuscripts Collection -- to research and to promote Pearl S. Buck studies through a wide variety of events and initiatives. This poster presentation will focus on the goals and terms of the collaboration and demonstrate the considerable progress that has occurred to date
Pearl S. Buck; Life, Legacy and New Global Initiatives
Full text linkThis session will explore the life, legacy and current initiatives in West Virginia and around the world relating to Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck. A native of Hillsboro, WV, Buck was not one of the world’s leading authors but also a pioneering advocate of social justice
Pearl S. Buck standing at a podium
No full textPearl S. Buck standing at a podium, 1969. Size of photograph: 6.5 x 4.25 in
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[Pearl S. Buck at airport]
No full textPhotograph of Dallas Love Field airport, where Pearl S. Buck is seen walking with her entourage behind a man wearing a hat and holding a briefcase. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu, is a notable writer and novelist visiting Dallas
Birthplace of Pearl S. Buck, Hillsboro, West Virginia, circa 1961-1990
No full textBirthplace of Pearl S. Buck, Hillsboro, West Virginia, circa 1961-1990. Caption reads: "Birthplace of Pearl S. Buck, Pocahontas County, Hillsboro, West Virginia. Pearl S. Buck, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for literature. Pearl S. Buck and John Steinbeck and the only two persons to ever win the Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize. She is the only woman to ever win both great honors. Pearl S. Buck, born Pearl Sydenstricker, June 26, 1892, in this house which was built by her great grandfather, Mynheer Johann Stulting, of Dutch descent. When only 4 months of age, her missionary parents returned to China with her. She learned to speak Chinese before she learned English. Pearl S. Buck won the Pulitzer Prize for her book, The Good Earth, in 1932, and the Nobel Prize for literature in 1938." Postcard number: 581380; Message included
“Solo i cinesi possono raccontare il vero volto del paese”. Alcune considerazioni su Pearl S. Buck e la narrativa cinese dei primi decenni del Novecento
No full textNel discorso di accettazione del premio Nobel, nel 1938, Pearl S. Buck ripudia la letteratura cinese a lei contemporanea, definendola un “hybrid product”, opera di scrittori fortemente influenzati dall’Occidente e ignari della ricchezza culturale del proprio paese. Quasi negli stessi anni, il grande scrittore Lu Xun afferma che la prospettiva che Buck propone nel suo capolavoro, La buona terra, è la visione superficiale di una missionaria che non riflette la realtà del paese. Attraverso l’opera di Lu Xun e di altri autori cinesi attivi negli anni Trenta del secolo scorso, il saggio intende analizzare questo conflitto sul “vero volto” della Cina del tempo, collocando la prospettiva degli scrittori cinesi nella complessità del periodo storico e proponendo alcune riflessioni sulle diverse visioni del rapporto con l’Occidente, con la tradizione e con la realtà rurale
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