Virile womanhood: Olive Schreiner's narratives of a master race

摘要: Abstract Olive Schreiner's enormously successful novels, as well her feminist tract Woman and Labor (1911), enact conflicts between ideologies of motherhood the desire for female independence in late nineteenth early twentieth centuries. As a white woman from Southern Africa, Schreiner feels affinities with both colonial rulers colonized people South Africa; writing uses myths transcultural to mediate these opposed political positions. The allegorical endings narratives are at odds complexities gender sexuality imagined powerful prose.