The Story of an African Farm

Name: The Story of an African Farm
Author: Olive Schreiner
ISBN: 9781787365575

Author: Olive Schreiner
Series: African Library
Language: English
Length: 294 pages
ISBN: 9781787365575
Published: 20 January 2023
Imprint: Sovereign

south africa
african
black culture
black heritage
discrimination
racism
salvery
equality
inequality
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Description

The Story of an African Farm, written by Olive Schreiner, is a classic example of 19th-century Realism in literature. Through her use of detailed, realistic descriptions and finely crafted characters, Schreiner is able to illustrate the struggles between traditionalism and emerging modernity in rural South Africa during this period. The novel is renowned for its exploration of social and gender issues, as well as its critiques of colonialism and imperialism.

Author

Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) was a South African novelist whose Story of an African Farm broke open colonial fiction with a girl's hunger for thought, faith, and independence on the veld. She wrote of gender, empire, and the inner life without softening the landscape. One novel in our catalogue, and it still reads like a first door into a harder, larger Africa.

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