Negotiating Power: Olive Schreiner and Racial Exclusion in New Woman Fiction

This article examines the contentious relationship between New Woman literature and the British empire. Olive Schreiner’s novella, Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897), and The Story of an African Farm (1883) demonstrate how New Women writers adopted exclusionary imperialist ideologies in orde...

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Main Author: Huzan Bharucha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2022-09-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/7462
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Summary:This article examines the contentious relationship between New Woman literature and the British empire. Olive Schreiner’s novella, Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897), and The Story of an African Farm (1883) demonstrate how New Women writers adopted exclusionary imperialist ideologies in order to promote their agenda of female emancipation in fin-de-siècle Britain.
ISSN:1749-9771