Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (eBook, PDF) - Schreiner, Olive
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Olive Schreiner was a South African author, anti-war campaigner, Feminist and intellectual. She is best known for her novel The story of an African Farm which has been highly acclaimed. 
Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897)' is the only fictional work by Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) to concern itself with the treatment of the black Africans by the European settlers of southern Africa. ("Mashonaland," later Rhodesia, is now Zimbabwe.) 
Trooper Halket, the protagonist, is an Englishman who gets lost in the veld and spends the night out. He is barely twenty, simple and naive. The…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Olive Schreiner was a South African author, anti-war campaigner, Feminist and intellectual. She is best known for her novel The story of an African Farm which has been highly acclaimed. 

Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897)' is the only fictional work by Olive
Schreiner (1855-1920) to concern itself with the treatment of the black Africans by
the European settlers of southern Africa. ("Mashonaland," later Rhodesia, is now
Zimbabwe.) 

Trooper Halket, the protagonist, is an Englishman who gets lost in the
veld and spends the night out. He is barely twenty, simple and naive. The powerful
indictment of British imperialism begins immediately but casually: Peter, though
alone in the dark, is not afraid of the "natives" for "their kraals had been destroyed
and their granaries burnt for thirty miles round". He remembers the nights of
military comradeship around the camp fire "talking of the niggers they had shot or
the kraals they had destroyed".
 
Autorenporträt
Olive Schreiner (Ralph Iron Olive) was born in Wittebergen, Cape Colony, South Africa, on March 25, 1855.She was a writer who published the first great South African novel, The Story of an African Farm (1883). She had strong insight, aggressive feminist and liberal perspectives on politics and society, and an extraordinary spirit that was damaged by asthma and depression. Schreiner had no proper education, even though she used to read widely and was taught by her mother. From 1874 until 1881, when she went to England, expecting to study medicine, she wrote two semiautobiographical books, Undine (published in 1928) and The Story of an African Farm (1883), and started From Man to Man (1926), for which she worked alternately for 40 years but never finished.