Race, gender and empire: transnational and transracial feminism in the first novels of Pauline Hopkins and Olive Schreiner

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dc.contributor.advisorCollis-Buthelezi, Victoria Jen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorBarends, Heidien_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-10T06:32:06Z
dc.date.available2015-08-10T06:32:06Z
dc.date.issued2015en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliography.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractWhite South African author Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) and African American author Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) are well-known and celebrated literary figures in their own right, but are seldom read side by side. Furthermore, these authors and their works are traditionally placed on different spectrums of feminist literary genealogies despite writing during a similar time-frame and sharing converging feminist agendas. This thesis analyses The Story of an African Farm (1883), Schreiner’s first completed novel, alongside Hopkins’ first full-length novel, the romance Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (1900). Individually, these novels and their authors do radical work in liberating their female characters from the patriarchal and racial oppression prevalent in each context. This thesis argues that reading the two in tandem offers unique insight into a specifically transnational and transracial feminist consciousness emerging at the turn of the nineteenth century. Identifying multiple links between the novels’ feminist concerns and their intersecting negotiations with race and empire, this comparative literary study establishes temporal, spatial and conceptual links between the two works, arguing that these links transcend both the space and race of their novels’ local contexts in order to suggest a definitive transnational and transracial feminist awareness. Such a reading moreover disrupts traditional genealogies of western feminism, urging scholars to look beyond the narrow scope of feminist “waves” and schools in order to detect nuances, convergences and relationships between texts which such genealogies disregard.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationBarends, H. (2015). <i>Race, gender and empire: transnational and transracial feminism in the first novels of Pauline Hopkins and Olive Schreiner</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13663en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationBarends, Heidi. <i>"Race, gender and empire: transnational and transracial feminism in the first novels of Pauline Hopkins and Olive Schreiner."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13663en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBarends, H. 2015. Race, gender and empire: transnational and transracial feminism in the first novels of Pauline Hopkins and Olive Schreiner. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Barends, Heidi AB - White South African author Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) and African American author Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) are well-known and celebrated literary figures in their own right, but are seldom read side by side. Furthermore, these authors and their works are traditionally placed on different spectrums of feminist literary genealogies despite writing during a similar time-frame and sharing converging feminist agendas. This thesis analyses The Story of an African Farm (1883), Schreiner’s first completed novel, alongside Hopkins’ first full-length novel, the romance Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (1900). Individually, these novels and their authors do radical work in liberating their female characters from the patriarchal and racial oppression prevalent in each context. This thesis argues that reading the two in tandem offers unique insight into a specifically transnational and transracial feminist consciousness emerging at the turn of the nineteenth century. Identifying multiple links between the novels’ feminist concerns and their intersecting negotiations with race and empire, this comparative literary study establishes temporal, spatial and conceptual links between the two works, arguing that these links transcend both the space and race of their novels’ local contexts in order to suggest a definitive transnational and transracial feminist awareness. Such a reading moreover disrupts traditional genealogies of western feminism, urging scholars to look beyond the narrow scope of feminist “waves” and schools in order to detect nuances, convergences and relationships between texts which such genealogies disregard. DA - 2015 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - Race, gender and empire: transnational and transracial feminism in the first novels of Pauline Hopkins and Olive Schreiner TI - Race, gender and empire: transnational and transracial feminism in the first novels of Pauline Hopkins and Olive Schreiner UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13663 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/13663
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationBarends H. Race, gender and empire: transnational and transracial feminism in the first novels of Pauline Hopkins and Olive Schreiner. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 2015 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13663en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of English Language and Literatureen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherLiterature and Modernityen_ZA
dc.titleRace, gender and empire: transnational and transracial feminism in the first novels of Pauline Hopkins and Olive Schreineren_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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dc.type.qualificationnameMAen_ZA
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