Description: Further DetailsTitle: Olive SchreinerCondition: NewSubtitle: Writing Networks and Global ContextsEAN: 9781399512534ISBN: 9781399512534Publisher: Edinburgh University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 12/31/2023Description: Examines Olive Schreiner's writing, networks and legacies in new global, historical and contemporary contextsExamines 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 modernismsExplores revealing and sometimes unexpected connections, affinities and lines of influence that link Schreiner's work with its widespread influence and afterlifeIncludes essays by leading and emerging Schreiner scholars working across English Studies, Modernist Studies, Comparative Literature, Sociology, Museum Studies, Publishing HistoryDiscusses 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 SchreinerThis 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmContributor: Jade Munslow Ong (Edited by), Andrew Van der Vlies (Edited by)Genre: BiographyAuthor: No AuthorTopic: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Olive Schreiner
Title: Olive Schreiner
Subtitle: Writing Networks and Global Contexts
EAN: 9781399512534
ISBN: 9781399512534
Release Date: 12/31/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 234mm
Contributor: Andrew Van der Vlies (Edited by)
Genre: Biography
Topic: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Olive Schreiner : Writing Networks and Global Contexts
Publisher: Edinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press
Subject: Women Authors, Feminist, Modern / 20th Century, Women's Studies, Modern / 19th Century, African
Publication Year: 2023
Type: Bilingual
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science
Author: Andrew Van Der Vlies
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
