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Title: | Olive Schreiner's 'The story of an African farm': Lyndall as transnational and transracial feminist |
Author: | Barends, Heidi |
Year: | 2015 |
Periodical: | The English Academy Review (ISSN 1753-5360) |
Volume: | 32 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 101-114 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | novels feminism |
About person: | Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner (1855-1920) |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2015.1086161 |
Abstract: | Olive Schreiner's 'The story of an African farm' is well known for its feminist aspirations, particularly epitomized through its main female protagonist, Lyndall. Despite the novel's arguably ground-breaking and revolutionary feminist politics, Schreiner's first full-length work has often been criticized for explicit racism and exclusionary tactics. Using Lyndall as a springboard, the author counteracts these claims. Analysing Lyndall's own engagements with feminist discourses in the novel - love and marriage, motherhood, empire and processes of racialization - this article argues that the novel's feminism is both transracially and transnationally applicable. Such a reading is furthermore indicative of a need to expand Schreiner scholarship beyond the traditional placement of her work within First Wave feminist discourse, and to situate 'The story of an African farm' within a broader, on-going debate on transnational and transracial female politics, already evident at the end of the nineteenth century. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |