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| Book Review: Bio of Pearl Buck |
| 2010-05-13 |
| The new book suffers no romantic delusion about the China that shaped American novelist Pearl Buck: It was a harsh land where brides were sold into slavery and newborn girls were strangled and left out for the dogs. The title alludes to how Buck as a little girl gathered the babies' bones -- hands, limbs, even a head -- in a string bag and buried them. Buck became the first American woman honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature. Today Buck is largely forgotten, deprived of a place in U.S. letters and feminist mythology. Her application for a visa to China in 1972 was rejected because she had, in the words of a Chinese diplomat, “taken an attitude of distortion, smear and vilification toward the people of new China and its leaders.' |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #2 She came to a university where I went way back when speakers had actually accomplished something-- Instead of the PC or radical speakers who come to universities today. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-05-13 22:16 |
| #1 "Today Buck is largely forgotten..." Not in my book she hasn't been. |
| Posted by: Asymmetrical 2010-05-13 21:44 |