Olive Schreiner's Fiction: Landscape and PowerRutgers University Press, 1991 - 201 páginas Olive Schreiner is one of those women writersÐÐsuch as Germaine de Stael, George Sand, or Margaret FullerÐÐwho has been more famous for her life, circle of friends, and proto-feminism than for her writings. These women are all known about but relatively unkown when it comes to a close study of their fiction. With Olive Schreiner's Fiction, Gerald Monsman has rectified that situation. Schreiner embodies an unusual combination of feminism and colonial Victorianism. The daughter of missionary parents in South Africa, she noticed early in her life that the Gospel's social message was not consistent with the behavior or cultural activity of the imperialists and empire builders by whom she was surrounded. She saw quite clearly the ways in which her society used religion to justify cultural domination and exploitation of both people and land and the ways in which appeals to a higher cause rationalized outright greed. In her fiction, Schreiner tried to use the master's own tools against him. Her insight, as Monsman sees it, is first to rearticulate the master plot--the religious foundation of equality. Social morality, based on that foundation, necessarily demands that one heed more than the patriarchal story and that one listen to the voices and stories told by children, women, the land, and all its inhabitants. Monsman charts the topography of her imagery within her most significant imaginative works, and provides one of the first serious considerations of Schreiner's fiction. |
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... fictional achievement that hitherto has been discussed only in discrete essays . To that end , this study is a reading of Schreiner's fiction in terms of certain social , economic , and historical pressures and an interpre- tation of ...
... fictional achievement that hitherto has been discussed only in discrete essays . To that end , this study is a reading of Schreiner's fiction in terms of certain social , economic , and historical pressures and an interpre- tation of ...
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... fiction . In the story " Eighteen - Ninety - Nine , ” renewal can only come from a present shedding of blood , a recognition that a perfect realization of the ideal is not compatible with things as they are nor immediately , concretely ...
... fiction . In the story " Eighteen - Ninety - Nine , ” renewal can only come from a present shedding of blood , a recognition that a perfect realization of the ideal is not compatible with things as they are nor immediately , concretely ...
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... fiction ) address the disruption of class , race , and sex roles brought about by colonial expansion . Recalling many years later what she herself had seen and heard as a child , Schreiner compared those early memories of colonial ...
... fiction ) address the disruption of class , race , and sex roles brought about by colonial expansion . Recalling many years later what she herself had seen and heard as a child , Schreiner compared those early memories of colonial ...
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Colony and Metropolis | 1 |
Dream Life and Undine | 26 |
The Story and Its Teller | 77 |
Derechos de autor | |
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African Farm Afrikaner allegory artistic autobiographical beauty becomes Bertie Bertie's Bird of Truth Blenkins Blenkins's Boer British Cecil Rhodes characters child colonial contrast Cronwright-Schreiner cultural dead death described Diamond Fields dominant dreams Eighteen-Ninety-Nine Elaine Showalter embodies escape Esther fallen father feel freedom George Eliot Gregory Gregory Rose hand Havelock Ellis human Ibid ideal idol imagery imagination imperial innocence intellectual iron Jannita John-Ferdinand kopje land landscape little Rebekah living looked Lyndall Lyndall's male marriage meaning missionary moonlight moral mother narrative narrator natives nature never nigger nineteenth-century Olive Schreiner opening oppression Otto patriarchal perhaps political Queen Victoria racial reader reality Rebekah reflected religious role Sannie Sartor Resartus scene Schreiner's fiction Schreiner's novel seeds seems sense sexual social society soul spiritual story structure suggests sunlight symbol temporal things tion tree Trooper Peter Undine Undine's Veronica victim Victorian vision voice Waldo woman women