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H. Rider Haggard On The Imperial Frontier: The Political And Literary Contexts Of His African Romances (british Authors Series, 1880-1920) by Gerald Monsman is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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H. Rider Haggard on the Imperial Frontier, the first book-length study of H.R.H.'s African fiction, revises the image of Rider Haggard (1856 1925) as a mere writer of adventure stories, a brassy propagandist for British imperialism. Professor Monsman places Haggard s imaginative works both in the context of colonial fiction writing and in the framework of subsequent postcolonial debates about history and its representation. Like Olive Schreiner, Haggard was an Anglo-African writer straddling the moral divide of mixed allegiances one empathetically African, the other quite English. The context for such Haggard tales as King Solomon s Mines and She was a triad of extraordinary nineteenth-century cultures in conflict British, Boer, and Zulu. Haggard mined his characters both from the ore of real-life Africa and from the depths of his subconscious, giving expression to feelings of cultural conflict, probing and subverting the dominant economic and social forces of imperialism. Monsman argues that Haggard endorses native religious powers as superior to the European empirical paradigm, celebrates autonomous female figures who defy patriarchal control, and covertly supports racial mixing.

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Author

Gerald Monsman

Publisher

E L T Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780944318218

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities