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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... living woman was pressed close to the cold face of the dead man . In his ear she whispered the wild words of love that to the living she would never utter - wild passionate words , the outpourings of a life's crushed - out love , the ...
... living woman was pressed close to the cold face of the dead man . In his ear she whispered the wild words of love that to the living she would never utter - wild passionate words , the outpourings of a life's crushed - out love , the ...
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... living and one stillborn . The prelude's title , with the word “ day ” stressing the period of the child's activities as regulated by the household routine , contrasts a single twelve - hour period , from morning to evening , with an ...
... living and one stillborn . The prelude's title , with the word “ day ” stressing the period of the child's activities as regulated by the household routine , contrasts a single twelve - hour period , from morning to evening , with an ...
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... is contrasted with the possibilities of the living moment . As Esther contemplates Mrs. Transome's picture , the portrait seems almost her doppel- gänger , and doubtless for this reason Esther felt " 170 Olive Schreiner's Fiction.
... is contrasted with the possibilities of the living moment . As Esther contemplates Mrs. Transome's picture , the portrait seems almost her doppel- gänger , and doubtless for this reason Esther felt " 170 Olive Schreiner's Fiction.
Contenido
Colony and Metropolis | 1 |
Dream Life and Undine | 26 |
The Story and Its Teller | 77 |
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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