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

Name: Rereading the Imperial Romance British Imperialism and South African Resistance in Haggard, Schreiner, and Plaatje
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ISBN: 9780198122999

ISBN-10: 0198122993

ISBN-13: 9780198122999

Edition: 2000

Authors: Laura Chrisman

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This book examines literary romance as a vehicle for the ideological contradictions of British imperialism in South Africa. Chrisman draws upon postcolonial theory and cultural materialism to discuss the imperialist Rider Haggard's fictional accounts of mining in King Solomon's Mines, and Zulu history in Nada the Lily, examining these novels as fraught responses to the introduction of capitalist modernity. She goes on to analyse the counter-narratives of metropolitan and African resistance of feminist Olive Schreiner and black nationalist Sol Plaatje. Exploring Schreiner's much-neglected Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland, Chrisman situates this book in relation to the violent creation of…

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List price: $265.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/23/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 252
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Patrick Williams is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literature and Languages at Nottingham Trent University. Laura Chrisman is a Lecturer in English in the School of African and Asian Studies at the University of Sussex.



Introduction


Manufacturing mystery from mining: King Solomon's Mines Trading on Africa: King Solomon's Mines


The British conquest of Zululand: Haggard's politics and ideology


The fictions of Zulu history: Nada the Lily Colonialism demystified



Halket of Mashonaland Alternative empires?


Englishness and Christianity in



Halket of Mashonaland


Transforming Haggardian romance: pastoralism and sexual politics in Mhudi Complex relations: African nationalism, imperialism, and form in Mhudi