Rereading the Imperial Romance: British Imperialism and South African Resistance in Haggard, Schreiner, and Plaatje

by Laura Chrisman

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198122993
• ISBN13: 9780198122999
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"