Reintroducing Olive Schreiner

Author : Liz Stanley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000777451

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Reintroducing Olive Schreiner by Liz Stanley Pdf

This book explores the thought of Olive Schreiner, the internationally famous writer, feminist theorist, social critic, opponent of imperialism and nationalism, and analyst of violence and war, best known for her novels and short stories, articles and critical commentaries, and her feminist treatise, Women and Labour. Expounding her groundbreaking ideas and analyses to a new generation of sociologists, it presents Schreiner as one of the first proponents of an intersectional analysis, in her treatment of the great questions of the age – on labour, women and race – as mutually reinforcing and also bound together with capitalism, imperialism and war in society. Through an analysis of her use of different genres of writing in representing the complexities of social life and oppressions, the author reveals a combination of social theory with practical substantive examples and analysis at the core of Schreiner’s intellectual and moral project – an approach that put her at odds with her contemporaries but shows her to be a forerunner of present-day sociological thinking. An examination of the significance for sociology of the work of a figure, the importance of whose thought is only now being recognised, Reintroducing Olive Schreiner will appeal to scholars of sociology and social theory with interests in the history of the discipline, intersectionality and methods of research and analysis.

Author : Matthew Blackman,Nick Dall
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781776391073

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Legends by Matthew Blackman,Nick Dall Pdf

We have a lot to be positive about in South Africa. With all our problems, it’s easy to feel bleak. But hold those thoughts, because Legends might be just the tonic you need to drive off the gloom. This book tells the stories of a dozen remarkable people – some well known, others largely forgotten – who changed Mzansi for the better. Most South Africans are proud of Nelson Mandela – and rightly so. His life was truly astounding, but he’s by no means the only person who should inspire us. There’s King Moshoeshoe, whose humanity and diplomatic strategies put him head and shoulders above his contemporaries, both European and African. And John Fairbairn, who brought non-racial democracy to the Cape in 1854. Olive Schreiner was a bestselling international author who fought racism, corruption and chauvinism. And Gandhi spent twenty years here inventing a system of protest that would bring an Empire to its knees. Legends also celebrates Eugène Marais’s startling contributions to literature and natural history (despite a lifelong morphine addiction); Sol Plaatje’s wit, intelligence and tenacity in the face of racial zealots; Cissie Gool’s lifetime fighting for justice and exposing bigots; and Sailor Malan’s battles against fascists in the skies of Europe and on the streets of South Africa. Legends also celebrates Eugène Marais’s startling contributions to literature and natural history (despite a lifelong morphine addiction); Sol Plaatje’s wit, intelligence and tenacity in the face of racial zealots; Cissie Gool’s lifetime fighting for justice and exposing bigots; and Sailor Malan’s battles against fascists in the skies of Europe and on the streets of South Africa. And then there’s Miriam Makeba, who began her life in prison and ended it as an international singing sensation; Steve Biko, who shifted the minds of an entire generation; and Thuli Madonsela (the book’s only living legend), who gracefully felled the most powerful man in the land. Engagingly written and meticulously researched, Legends reminds South Africans that we have a helluva lot to be proud of.

Author : Heather Parker Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Authors, South African
ISBN : 1920103198

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Olive Schreiner by Heather Parker Lewis Pdf

Author : Olive Schreiner
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015002754227

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A Track to the Water's Edge by Olive Schreiner Pdf

Author : Olive Schreiner
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547102489

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From Man to Man by Olive Schreiner Pdf

"From Man to Man" is a feminist novel by the first South African-born novelist Olive Schreiner. The story tells of two white women, Rebekah and Bertie. They are sisters born into the racist and sexist society of mid-nineteenth-century South Africa. One of them remains in the Cape, marries, and has children. The other becomes a kept woman and a prostitute in London's East End. The novel's main question is, how far are marriage and prostitution apart in a world where women are valued mainly for their bodies?

Author : Christian Papilloud
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003804581

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Reintroducing Marcel Mauss by Christian Papilloud Pdf

This reintroduction to the life and work of Marcel Mauss highlights his coherent and original thought both as an academic and an engaged intellectual of his time. Since his work regained attention in social sciences in the later 20th century, Reintroducing Marcel Mauss also emphasises the progression of research on Mauss’s thought, bringing to light various neglected aspects of his scientific project, including his political commitment and writings. With a review of the contemporary research on Mauss’s legacy, it offers a fuller understanding of the questions with which he was concerned – questions which converged in the challenge of working out alternative ways for a social life that promotes a genuinely social society inspired by socialist and cooperative values. It will therefore appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology with interests in the history and development of sociology, and the contemporary importance of classical social theory.

Author : Stuart Hobday,Gaby Weiner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003801726

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Reintroducing Harriet Martineau by Stuart Hobday,Gaby Weiner Pdf

This book explores the innovative, sociological approach adopted by Harriet Martineau in her efforts to develop a ‘scientific’ approach to understanding social and societal change. With attention to her focus on the key social structures and societal issues of her day – the economy, education, the condition of women and the evils of slavery – the authors highlight her creation and application of what we now recognise as sociological methodology, fieldwork and analysis. Through an examination in each chapter of the writings that best illustrate Martineau’s sociological perspective, Reintroducing Harriet Martineau discusses her enduring contribution to sociology. As such, it will appeal to scholars and students of sociology with interests in the history of the discipline and questions of methodology.

Author : Christopher Adair-Toteff
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000870244

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Reintroducing Ferdinand Tönnies by Christopher Adair-Toteff Pdf

Exploring, clarifying, and moving beyond the distinction between ‘community’ and ‘society’ for which he is best known, this book rediscovers the work of Ferdinand Tönnies, providing fresh insights into his thought, which are often overlooked for want of a grasp of his background in philosophy. With attention to the fact that Tönnies always wrote from a sociological perspective, it considers the importance of the breadth of his writing on a range of subjects, including politics, philosophy, economics, and ethics, these being the foundations of social policy - a field with which Tönnies was concerned as a scholar who sought not only to understand the world but also to change it for the better. The first book to provide an accessible overview of Tönnies' work that places his thought in context, explores his key concepts, and demonstrates his continuing relevance in sociology - a discipline he helped to establish - Reintroducing Ferdinand Tönnies will appeal to scholars and students with interests in social theory, the history of sociology, and the sociology of Ferdinand Tönnies.

Author : Olive Schreiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015002719386

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The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner Pdf

Author : A. Donnell,P. Polkey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230287440

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Representing Lives by A. Donnell,P. Polkey Pdf

Representing Lives: Women and Auto/biography is an eclectic and comprehensive collection of essays, exploring contemporary issues and debates concerning women's auto-biographical representations from a range of disciplinary perspectives. With authoritative contributions from a number of prominent figures in the field of women's auto/biography, as well as innovative new voices, this volume offers a broad and contemporary lens on the issues and debates relevant to the act of representing women's lives. Drawing on a variety of theoretical frameworks and discussing theatre, literature, popular culture and women in history, these essays help to map out some of the new intellectual spaces inhabited by feminist scholarship in the 1990s.

Author : Stephen Mennell,Alex Law
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839986666

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The Anthem Companion to Norbert Elias by Stephen Mennell,Alex Law Pdf

The book presents an authoritative assessment of Norbert Elias (1897–1990). It recognizes Elias as one of the major contributors to the development of sociological tradition in the past century and charts the continuing relevance of his conception of sociology for contemporary society. Only toward the end of his career as an academic did Elias’s work begin to attract the attention of English-speaking sociologists, historians, and scholars of cultural studies. The book provides an authoritative and broad representation of Elias’s oeuvre and work inspired by it. While Elias is best known for his major study of The Civilizing Process, the reach and subtle depths of Elias’s conception of process sociology has been cemented more recently by the English-language publication of Elias’s collected work of 18 volumes. The baton of process sociology is being passed on to further generations of sociologists. Chapters from leading contributors outline the nature of the sociological practice of Elias and address fundamental questions of historical sociology, democratization, gender, racialization processes, and embodiment. Later chapters highlight the contribution of process sociology for understanding developments in nation, state and global sociology, criminology, art, and education.

Author : C. Burdett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230598973

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Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism by C. Burdett Pdf

Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism explores two key areas: first, the debates taking place in England during the last two decades of the nineteenth century about the position of women; and, second, the volatile events of the 1890s in South Africa, which culminated in war between the British Empire and the Boer republics in 1899. Through a detailed reading of the fictional and non-fictional writing of one extraordinary woman, Olive Schreiner, it traces the complex relations between gender and empire in a modernizing world.

Author : Jade Munslow Ong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317388364

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Olive Schreiner and African Modernism by Jade Munslow Ong Pdf

This book works across established categories of modernism and postcolonialism in order to radically revise the periods, places, and topics traditionally associated with anti-colonialism and aesthetic experimentation in African literature. The book is the first account of Olive Schreiner as a theorist and practitioner of modernist form advancing towards an emergent postcolonialism. The book draws on and broadens discussions in and around the blossoming field of global modernist studies by interrogating the conventionally accepted genealogy of development that positions Europe and America as the sites of innovation. It provides an original examination of the relationships between metaphor, postcolonialism, and modernist experimentation by showing how politically and aesthetically innovative African forms rely on allegorical structures, in contrast to the symbolism dominant in Euro-American modernism. An original theoretical concept of the role of primitivism and allegory within the context of modernism and associated critical theory is proposed through the integration of postcolonial, Marxist, and ecocritical approaches to literature. The book provides original readings of Schreiner’s three novels, Undine, The Story of An African Farm, and From Man to Man, in light of the new theory of primitivism in African literature by directly addressing the issue of narrative form. This argument is contextualised in relation to the work of other Southern African authors, in whose writings the impact of Schreiner’s politics and aesthetics can be traced. These authors include J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Doris Lessing, Solomon T. Plaatje, and Zoe Wicomb, amongst others. This book brings the most current debates in modernist studies, ecocriticism, and primitivism into the field of postcolonial studies and contributes to a widening of the debates surrounding gender, race, empire, and modernism.

Author : Carolyn Burdett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1088954852

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Olive Schreiner by Carolyn Burdett Pdf

Author : Olive Schreiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108053044

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Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner Pdf

First published in 1911, this acclaimed and influential feminist classic is one of the most important of the twentieth century.