Olive Schreiner

Writing Networks and Global Contexts

• Author(s): Jade Munslow Ong, Andrew van der Vlies,
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Pages: 352
• ISBN_10: 1399512536
  ISBN_13: 9781399512534
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / World , Literary Collections / Essays , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / Feminist , Literary Criticism / African , Literary Criticism / Women Authors , Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century , Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century , Social Science / Women's Studies ,

Description:... [headline]Examines Olive Schreiner's writing, networks and legacies in new global, historical and contemporary contexts 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 siècle, 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. [editor bios]Jade Munslow Ong is Reader in English Literature at the University of Salford, UK and Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded research project South African Modernism 1880-2020. Andrew van der Vlies is Professor in the Department of English, Creative Writing and Film at the University of Adelaide in Australia, and Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.