Olive Schreiner

Jade Munslow Ong is Associate Professor in World Literatures in English at the University of Salford, UK, and Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded research project, South African Modernism 1880–2020. She is author of Olive Schreiner and African Modernism: Allegory, Empire and Postcolonial Writing (2018), and articles and chapters on colonial and postcolonial African literatures, animals and the environment in Victorian and world literatures, and decolonising pedagogies in Further Education. Jade is also a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker who appears in programmes on BBC Radio 3. Andrew van der Vlies is Professor in the Department of English, Creative Writing and Film at the University of Adelaide in Australia, and Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. A graduate of Rhodes and Oxford Universities, he is the author of essays and chapters on South African literatures, art history, gender studies and print cultures, and of the books Present Imperfect: Contemporary South African Writing (Oxford, 2017) and South African Textual Cultures (Manchester, 2007). He is co-editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee (with Lucy Graham, Bloomsbury, 2023) and South African Writing in Transition (with Rita Barnard, Bloomsbury, 2019), and editor of Zoë Wicomb's Race, Nation, Translation: South African Essays (Yale, 2018) and Print, Text, and Book Cultures in South Africa (Wits, 2012).

• FiguresAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsOlive Schreiner in the World: An Introduction, Jade Munslow Ong and Andrew van der VliesPart I Modernity and Modernism1. Schreiner and the Machine, Mark Sanders2. The Bloomsbury Modernisms of Margaret Harkness and Olive Schreiner, Jade Munslow Ong3. Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: Proto-ecofeminists?, Dan WyliePart II Race and Anti-Racism4. Olive Schreiner and C. F. Andrews: Utopia and Paths to Anti-Racism and Decolonisation, Barnita Bagchi5. Turning Points: Olive Schreiner Changing Her Mind About Race Matters, Liz Stanley6. Olive Schreiner, Race and Black South Africa: #RhodesMustFall and a 'Prophetic Vision of the Future', Janet Remmington7. The Influence of Olive Schreiner on Howard Thurman and, through Thurman, on Martin Luther King, Jr., Heidi BarendsPart III Print, Publishing and Translation8. Dreaming of Liberty: Olive Schreiner’s Ambivalent Anarchism, Clare Gill9. The Reception of Olive Schreiner’s Work and Thought in the Dutch Press, Małgorzata Drwal10. The Reception of Olive Schreiner in the Swedish Press, 1890–1920, Sanja NivesjöPart IV Antipodean Schreiner11. Olive Schreiner and the New Women of New Zealand: Feminist Solidarities Across the Southern Colonies, Emma Barnes12. The Story of an Australian Farm: Olive Schreiner in Australia, Nicholas Jose, Alex Sutcliffe and Mandy TreagusPart V South African Afterlives13. Passing It On: Olive Schreiner and Bessie Head, Dorothy Driver14. Coetzee’s Schreiner, Schreiner’s Coetzee: Provincialising Allegory, Andrew van der Vlies15. Olive Schreiner In/Beyond the Museum, Paul Walters and Jeremy FoggIndex

What emerges in this fifteen-essay collection (plus introduction) is a nuanced picture of the influence of other writers, thinkers, and political actors on Schreiner and the influence of Schreiner on others. [...] It is a treasure trove of original research and sharp readings, emphasizing cross-cultural exchange that I would unreservedly encourage any Schreiner scholar to explore.