1st Edition
Olive Schreiner and African Modernism Allegory, Empire and Postcolonial Writing
By Jade Munslow Ong
Copyright 2018
196 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
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This book works across established categories of modernism and postcolonialism in order to radically revise the periods, places, and topics traditionally associated with anti-colonialism and aesthetic experimentation in African literature. The book is the first account of Olive Schreiner as a theorist and practitioner of modernist form advancing towards an emergent postcolonialism. The book... Read more
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
Biography
Jade Munslow Ong is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Salford, UK.
