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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Olive Schreiner"”.
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Olive Schreiner : women, nature, culture
This dissertation locates Olive Schreiner as a nineteenth-century colonial woman writer who challenges the traditional association of men with culture, and women with nature. In Schreiner's writing the oppression of women is situated within an understanding of the social construction of "woman" as …
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"The dream ends there": transnational feminist negotiations in Pauline E. Hopkins and Olive Schreiner
… (1859-1930), and the white South African writer, Olive Schreiner (1855-1920). Although Hopkins and Schreiner wrote at the same time, inhabited settler-colonial contexts (the United States and South Africa) that can in many respects be seen as similar, and shared an investment in gender and race …
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Race, gender and empire: transnational and transracial feminism in the first novels of Pauline Hopkins and Olive Schreiner
White South African author Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) and African American author Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) are well-known and celebrated literary figures in their own right, but are seldom read side by side. Furthermore, these authors and their works are traditionally placed on …
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The unhealed wound : Olive Schreiner's expressive art
In this paper I discuss the relation between Olive Schreiner's social context and the form of her fictional writing. It is not intended as an interpretation of her work but rather represents a preliminary sketch of the social and political discourses which structured her environment. I suggest that …
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Discourse and Psyche: Three Women's Texts of Empire
… of the late nineteenth century---Mary Kingsley, Olive Schreiner, and Flora Annie Steel---construct portraits of the colonized that reflect the particular fears and desires generated by the writers' historically and socially specific gendered subject positions within late Victorian society."
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Literature and the littoral in South Africa: reading the tides of history
… by prominent South African authors such as Olive Schreiner, Nadine Gordimer, Peter Abrahams, Zoë Wicomb, Lewis Nkosi, and Yvette Christiansë, and a poetry collection by Douglas Livingstone. In these texts, the littoral is presented as a space which is governed by the spatial politics of that …
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Writing the New Life: Literary Form in the Spiritual Imagination of Middle-Class Ethical Socialism, 1880–1900
… extra-literary reality. In Chapter Two, novelist Olive Schreiner is seen to construct a holistic philosophy from the combination of Emersonian Transcendentalism and Darwinian materialism, formally reflected in the socialistically popular allegories of Dreams (1890). The third chapter argues that …
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The dialectical tradition in South Africa
… political convictions - J.W.G. van Oordt, Olive Schreiner, Gandhi and others. This tradition found a more enduring institutional base in the academic discipline of philosophy at Stellenbosch, in the aftermath of the du Plessis case of 1928-32. The Stellenbosch philosophical tradition came …