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Author : Olive Schreiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015002719386
Author : Olive Schreiner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486115702
The first great South African novel chronicles the adventures of three childhood friends who defy societal repression. A gripping indictment of the rigid Boer social conventions of the 19th-century.
Author : Olive Schreiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108053044
First published in 1911, this acclaimed and influential feminist classic is one of the most important of the twentieth century.
Author : Olive Schreiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010690472
Author : Olive Schreiner
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798742553397
the story of an african farm From Olive Schreiner
Author : Roger Thurow
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610393423
At 4:00 am, Leonida Wanyama lit a lantern in her house made of sticks and mud. She was up long before the sun to begin her farm work, as usual. But this would be no ordinary day, this second Friday of the new year. This was the day Leonida and a group of smallholder farmers in western Kenya would begin their exodus, as she said, "from misery to Canaan," the land of milk and honey. Africa's smallholder farmers, most of whom are women, know misery. They toil in a time warp, living and working essentially as their forebears did a century ago. With tired seeds, meager soil nutrition, primitive storage facilities, wretched roads, and no capital or credit, they harvest less than one-quarter the yields of Western farmers. The romantic ideal of African farmers -- rural villagers in touch with nature, tending bucolic fields -- is in reality a horror scene of malnourished children, backbreaking manual work, and profound hopelessness. Growing food is their driving preoccupation, and still they don't have enough to feed their families throughout the year. The wanjala -- the annual hunger season that can stretch from one month to as many as eight or nine -- abides. But in January 2011, Leonida and her neighbors came together and took the enormous risk of trying to change their lives. Award-winning author and world hunger activist Roger Thurow spent a year with four of them -- Leonida Wanyama, Rasoa Wasike, Francis Mamati, and Zipporah Biketi -- to intimately chronicle their efforts. In The Last Hunger Season, he illuminates the profound challenges these farmers and their families face, and follows them through the seasons to see whether, with a little bit of help from a new social enterprise organization called One Acre Fund, they might transcend lives of dire poverty and hunger. The daily dramas of the farmers' lives unfold against the backdrop of a looming global challenge: to feed a growing population, world food production must nearly double by 2050. If these farmers succeed, so might we all.
Author : Isak Dinesen
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443432955
In Out of Africa, author Isak Dinesen takes a wistful and nostalgic look back on her years living in Africa on a Kenyan coffee plantation. Recalling the lives of friends and neighbours—both African and European—Dinesen provides a first-hand perspective of colonial Africa. Through her obvious love of both the landscape and her time in Africa, Dinesen’s meditative writing style deeply reflects the themes of loss as her plantation fails and she returns to Europe. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.
Author : Leah Penniman
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : African American cooking
ISBN : 9781603587617
"Farming While Black is the first comprehensive "how to" guide for aspiring African-heritage growers to reclaim their dignity as agriculturists and for all farmers to understand the distinct, technical contributions of African-heritage people to sustainable agriculture. At Soul Fire Farm, author Leah Penniman co-created the Black and Latino Farmers Immersion (BLFI) program as a container for new farmers to share growing skills in a culturally relevant and supportive environment led by people of color. Farming While Black organizes and expands upon the curriculum of the BLFI to provide readers with a concise guide to all aspects of small-scale farming, from business planning to preserving the harvest. Throughout the chapters Penniman uplifts the wisdom of the African diasporic farmers and activists whose work informs the techniques described--from whole farm planning, soil fertility, seed selection, and agroecology, to using whole foods in culturally appropriate recipes, sharing stories of ancestors, and tools for healing from the trauma associated with slavery and economic exploitation on the land. Woven throughout the book is the story of Soul Fire Farm, a national leader in the food justice movement." --
Author : Olive Schreiner
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473397217
Originally published in 1929, "Undine" is a semi-autobiographical novel about life in colonial South Africa. Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) was a South African anti-war campaigner, intellectual, and author most famous for her highly-acclaimed novel “The Story of an African Farm” (1883), which deals with such issues as existential independence, agnosticism, individualism, and the empowerment of women. Other notable works by this author include: “Closer Union: a Letter on South African Union and the Principles of Government” (1909), and “Woman and Labour” (1911). Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this classic novel now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author and an Introduction by S. C. Cronwright-Schreiner.
Author : Ralph Iron (pseud. van Olive Schreiner)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:67954974
Author : Jade Munslow Ong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317388364
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 : Russell H. Conwell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780486149202
Profound yet easy to read, this self-help classic by the founder of Temple University provides practical advice on opening your mind and making the most of your circumstances to find success.
Author : Olive Schreiner
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781528791441
Originally published in 1924, “Dreams” is a collection of short stories written by South African writer Olive Schreiner. Her second book, “Dreams” contains eleven short stories inspired by Schreiner's dreams and her experiences living on a South African farm. Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) was a South African anti-war campaigner, intellectual, and author most famous for her highly-acclaimed novel “The Story of an African Farm” (1883), which deals with such issues as existential independence, agnosticism, individualism, and the empowerment of women. Other notable works by this author include: “Closer Union: a Letter on South African Union and the Principles of Government” (1909), and “Woman and Labour” (1911). Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing these classic short stories now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Author : Joseph Jeffrey Walters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015027191793
Guanya Pau: Story of an African Princess by Joseph Walters Jeffrey, first published in 1891, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author : Pete Daniel
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469602028
Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, historian Pete Daniel analyzes this decline and chronicles black farmers' fierce struggles to remain on the land in the face of discrimination by bureaucrats in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He exposes the shameful fact that at the very moment civil rights laws promised to end discrimination, hundreds of thousands of black farmers lost their hold on the land as they were denied loans, information, and access to the programs essential to survival in a capital-intensive farm structure. More than a matter of neglect of these farmers and their rights, this "passive nullification" consisted of a blizzard of bureaucratic obfuscation, blatant acts of discrimination and cronyism, violence, and intimidation. Dispossession recovers a lost chapter of the black experience in the American South, presenting a counternarrative to the conventional story of the progress achieved by the civil rights movement.
