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Beyond Gold and Diamonds
Melissa Free
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Genre, the Authorial Informant, and the British South African Novel
出版State University of New York Press, 2021-03-01
主題Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / AfricanLiterary Criticism / Modern / 20th CenturyHistory / Modern / 20th Century / GeneralSocial Science / Gender StudiesSocial Science / Women's Studies
ISBN14384815439781438481548
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=II_1DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Beyond Gold and Diamonds demonstrates the importance of southern Africa to British literature from the 1880s to the 1920s, from the rise of the systematic exploitation of the region's mineral wealth to the aftermath of World War I. It focuses on fiction by the colonial-born Olive Schreiner, southern Africa's first literary celebrity, as well as by H. Rider Haggard, Gertrude Page, and John Buchan, its most influential authorial informants, British authors who spent significant time in the region and wrote about it as insiders. Tracing the ways in which generic innovation enabled these writers to negotiate cultural and political concerns through a uniquely British South African lens, Melissa Free argues that British South African literature constitutes a distinct field, one that overlaps with but also exists apart from both a national South African literary tradition and a tradition of South African literature in English. The various genres that British South African novelists introduced—the New Woman novel, the female colonial romance, the Rhodesian settler romance, and the modern spy thriller—anticipated metropolitan literary developments while consolidating Britain's sense of its own dominion in a time of increasing opposition.