Jade Munslow Ong

Olive Schreiner and African Modernism

Allegory, Empire and Postcolonial Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

This book revises the periods, places, and topics usually associated with anti-colonialism and aesthetic experimentation in African literature, visiting Olive Schreiner as a theorist and practitioner of modernist form advancing towards an emergent postcolonialism. A theoretical concept of the role of primitivism and allegory within the context of modernism and associated critical theory is proposed through the integration of postcolonial, Marxist, and ecocritical approaches to literature, contextualised among other Southern African authors. This book joins modernist studies, ecocriticism, primitivism, and postcolonial studies and contributes to debates surrounding gender, race, and empire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781138935242
• ISBN-10: 1138935247
• Artikelnr.: 43680098

Autorenporträt

Jade Munslow Ong is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Salford, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction. Olive Schreiner and African Modernism: Allegory, Empire and
Postcolonial Writing
Chapter 1. Allegory and Animals in Undine: A Queer Little Child
Chapter 2. Primitivist Modernism, Anti-Imperialism and The Story of An
African Farm
Chapter 3. Evolution, Gender and Race in From Man to Man (Or Perhaps
Only...)
Chapter 4. Olive Schreiner's Afterlives
Bibliography