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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2022-09-01
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d28ce98a9ee64f4a8e151841216da4652022-12-22T16:20:00ZengUniversity of EdinburghForum1749-97712022-09-013310.2218/forum.33.74627462Negotiating Power: Olive Schreiner and Racial Exclusion in New Woman FictionHuzan BharuchaThis 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.http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/7462 |
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| title_short | Negotiating Power: Olive Schreiner and Racial Exclusion in New Woman Fiction |
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