9780198122999-0198122993-Rereading the Imperial Romance: British Imperialism and South African Resistance in Haggard, Schreiner, and Plaatje (Oxford English Monographs)

Rereading the Imperial Romance: British Imperialism and South African Resistance in Haggard, Schreiner, and Plaatje (Oxford English Monographs)

ISBN-13: 9780198122999
ISBN-10: 0198122993
Edition: 1
Author: Laura Chrisman
Publication date: 2000
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Format: Hardcover 252 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780198122999
ISBN-10: 0198122993
Edition: 1
Author: Laura Chrisman
Publication date: 2000
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Format: Hardcover 252 pages

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Rereading the Imperial Romance: British Imperialism and South African Resistance in Haggard, Schreiner, and Plaatje (Oxford English Monographs) (ISBN-13: 9780198122999 and ISBN-10: 0198122993), written by authors Laura Chrisman, was published by Clarendon Press in 2000. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Rereading the Imperial Romance: British Imperialism and South African Resistance in Haggard, Schreiner, and Plaatje (Oxford English Monographs) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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This book examines literary romance as a vehicle for the ideological contradictions of British imperialism in South Africa from 1880 to 1920. Drawing on postcolonial theory and cultural materialism, Laura Chrisman discusses the fictions of mining (King Solomon's Mines) and Zulu history (Nada the Lily) by the imperialist Rider Haggard, and shows how feminist Olive Schreiner and black nationalist Sol Plaatje produced counter-fictions of metropolitan and African resistance. The novels are examined as responses to political, economic, and social developments of imperial capitalism: mining; the Anglo-Zulu War; the creation of Rhodesia; the 1913 Natives' Land Act, and the formation of the ANC.

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