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An Olive Schreiner reader : writings on women and South Africa

Title
An Olive Schreiner reader : writings on women and South Africa / edited and introduced by Carol Barash ; afterword by Nadine Gordimer.
Author
Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920.
Publication
London ; New York : Pandora ; New York, NY : Routledge and K. Paul in association with Methuen, 1987.

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Barash, Carol
  • Gordimer, Nadine
Description
viii, 261 pages : illustrations; 20 cm
Uniform Title
Essays. Selections
Alternative Title
  • Essays.
  • Women and South Africa
Subject
  • Women > Literary collections
  • Women
  • South Africa > Literary collections
  • South Africa
Genre/Form
  • Literature
  • Literary collections
  • Literature.
  • Littérature.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 251-258.
Contents
  • Prelude. The child's day -- Gender, class and science. The woman question -- Three dreams in a desert -- The Buddhist priest's wife -- 'The policy in favour of protection--'.
  • Fantasy and the female body. Dream life and real life : a little African story -- five pieces from Dreams. The gardens of pleasure ; A dream of wild bees ; Life's gifts ; The artists secret ; I thought I stood.
  • Gender, race and politics. Eighteen nintey-nine -- The native question -- Woman and war -- The dawn of civilisation.
  • Afterword : 'the prison-house of colonialism' / Nadine Gordimer.
ISBN
  • 0863581803
  • 0863581188
  • 9780863581809
  • 9780863581182
LCCN
86030608
OCLC
  • ocm15053101
  • 15053101
  • SCSB-1179997
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library