Olive Schreiner : Writing Networks and Global Contexts

Munslow Ong, Jade (EDT)/ van der Vlies, Andrew (EDT)

Edinburgh University Press（2023/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 352 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399512534
• DDC分類 823.8

Full Description

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

Examines aspects of Schreiner's radical thought, including her feminism, anti-colonialism, anti-racism, pacifism, environmentalism, and ambivalent anarchism, as well as their impacts on civil rights movements, global feminisms, and global literary modernisms
Explores revealing and sometimes unexpected connections, affinities and lines of influence that link Schreiner's work with its widespread influence and afterlife
Includes essays by leading and emerging Schreiner scholars working across English Studies, Modernist Studies, Comparative Literature, Sociology, Museum Studies, Publishing History
Discusses Schreiner's work in relation to major global literary and historical figures including W. E. B. DuBois, Martin Luther King Jr, Charles Freer Andrews, J. M. Coetzee, Virginia Woolf, Bessie Head and Patrick White, amongst othersChapters are driven by a shared impetus to uncover and analyse the anticipatory and galvanising roles of political and artistic forces that emerge from Southern Africa through case studies on Schreiner

This collection of essays considers the significance of South African-born writer, activist and thinker Olive Schreiner in international and multidisciplinary contexts in her time and the ongoing relevance of her work to our own. A leading writer of New Woman Fiction at the fin de si cle, Schreiner influenced generations of readers, not to mention other writers. Taken together, these essays make the argument for a 'new' Schreiner Studies drawing on recent developments in scholarship on global and peripheral modernisms, activist networks and intersectionality, posthumanism, memory studies and intermediality. They position Schreiner's work and legacy as significant for understanding literary and social archives, race and gender performance, and the rise of literary modernism in the global Anglosphere.

Contents

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Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Olive Schreiner in the World: An Introduction, Jade Munslow Ong and Andrew van der Vlies

Part I Modernity and Modernism

1. Schreiner and the Machine, Mark Sanders

2. The Bloomsbury Modernisms of Margaret Harkness and Olive Schreiner, Jade Munslow Ong

3. Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: Proto-ecofeminists?, Dan Wylie

Part II Race and Anti-Racism

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

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

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

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

Part III Print, Publishing and Translation

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

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

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

Part IV Antipodean Schreiner

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

12. The Story of an Australian Farm: Olive Schreiner in Australia, Nicholas Jose, Alex Sutcliffe and Mandy Treagus

Part V South African Afterlives

13. Passing It On: Olive Schreiner and Bessie Head, Dorothy Driver

14. Coetzee's Schreiner, Schreiner's Coetzee: Provincialising Allegory, Andrew van der Vlies

15. Olive Schreiner In/Beyond the Museum, Paul Walters and Jeremy Fogg

Index