"""That Indefinable Something Besides"": Southern Africa, British Identity, and the Authorial Informant, 1883-1924"
Free, Melissa
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Title
"""That Indefinable Something Besides"": Southern Africa, British Identity, and the Authorial Informant, 1883-1924"
Author(s)
Free, Melissa
Issue Date
2009
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Valente, Joseph
Department of Study
English
Discipline
English
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Literature, African
Language
eng
Abstract
Generic innovation from Schreiner to Buchan reflects the mediation of tradition and modernity in South African space. Eschewing conventional gender roles in their interactions with Africans, British women in South Africa simultaneously bolster the Empire and liberate themselves. Confronting unfamiliar challenges to longstanding racial hierarchies, British men affirm the soundness of personal value systems correlated to Empire. The assertion of authority for the South African colonial, thus, is predicated not simply on Britishness, but on the situated negotiation of gender and race.
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