Olive Schreiner : Writing Networks and Global Contexts / edited by Jade Munslow Ong and Andrew van der Vlies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Munslow Ong, Jade, Author.

Contributor:

Munslow Ong, Jade, editor.

van der Vlies, Andrew, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920--Criticism and interpretation.

Schreiner, Olive.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2024]

Summary:

Examines Olive Schreiner's writing, networks and legacies in new global, historical and contemporary contexts.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Olive Schreiner in the World: An Introduction

Part I Modernity and Modernism

1. Schreiner and the Machine

2. The Bloomsbury Modernisms of Margaret Harkness and Olive Schreiner

3. Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: Proto-Ecofeminists?

Part II Race and Anti-Racism

4. Olive Schreiner and C. F. Andrews: Utopia and Paths to Anti-Racism and Decolonisation

5. Turning Points: Olive Schreiner Changing Her Mind About Race Matters

6. Olive Schreiner, Race and Black South Africa: #RhodesMustFall and a 'Prophetic Vision of the Future'

7. The Influence of Olive Schreiner on Howard Thurman and, through Thurman, on Martin Luther King, Jr.

Part III Print, Publishing and Translation

8. Dreaming of Liberty: Olive Schreiner's Ambivalent Anarchism

9. The Reception of Olive Schreiner's Work and Thought in the Dutch Press

10. The Reception of Olive Schreiner in the Swedish Press, 1890-1920

Part IV Antipodean Schreiner

11. Olive Schreiner and the New Women of New Zealand: Feminist Solidarities Across the Southern Colonies

12. The Story of an Australian Farm: Olive Schreiner in Australia

Part V South African Afterlives

13. Passing It On: Olive Schreiner and Bessie Head

14. Coetzee's Schreiner, Schreiner's Coetzee: Provincialising Allegory

15. Olive Schreiner In/Beyond the Museum

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-3995-1256-0

1-3995-1255-2

OCLC:

1416144510