Images: Mission and Missionaries in Contemporary Fiction and Cinema

Abstract

During the present century, mission and missionaries have been the subjects of a significant number of twentieth-century novelists and screenwriters. Since the publication in 1921 of Somerset Maughm's short story “Rain” to John Hersey's 1985 novel The Call, there has been a steady stream of fictional and quasi-fictional depictions of Roman Catholic and Protestant missionaries, some extolling them, others not. Most of these fictional works have become movies. This essay represents an attempt to inventory and analyze the contents of these literary and cinematic portrayals.

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