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2015
530 pages
Soft cover
Print: 978 1 77582 070 3 Web pdf: 978 1 77582 147 2 ePub: 978 1 77582 148 9 Mobi: 978 1 77582 149 6 Southern African rights only R439.00
BISAC: 004000
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Policing sexual offences in South Africa
D Smythe
LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE
From Man to Man, or Perhaps Only
O Schreiner (Edited by D Driver)
Though Olive Schreiner is best known for her youthful The Story of an African Farm, this book may well be her greatest achievement. Un nished on her death in 1920, her husband published it in 1926, adding a nal chapter in the form he said Schreiner had recounted to him. The story is about two white women, Rebekah and Bertie, sisters born into the racist and sexist society of mid-nineteenth- century South Africa. One sister remains in the Cape, marries and has children, the other becomes a kept woman and then a prostitute in London’s East End. From exploring white women’s con nement to domesticity the novel expands its gaze to include black women and girls, whose presence gradually informs Rebekah’s struggle to re-create herself and educate her children (including her black foster-child) so that they may pursue a more humane and ful lled destiny. This new edition, edited by Dorothy Driver, corrects previous editorial and proofreading errors. It also provides another ending, as told by Schreiner in a letter to a friend. The editor’s introduction; historical, literary and linguistic annotations; and extracts from Schreiner’s letters and journals all cast light on the genesis, composition, context and signi cance of an extraordinary novel which, through the power of its story-telling and the vibrancy of its language, envisions a future society no longer subject to inhuman racial and gender restrictions.
See also GENDER STUDIES, p.24
Rape Unresolved