Dream time and anti-imperialism in the writings of Olive Schreiner

This article explores how Olive Schreiner utilizes politicized modernist aesthetics, specifically the manipulation of time through allegory and dream, to resist structures of empire. The claim that Schreiner’s work should be received and analysed as modernist builds on recent work in global modernist studies that views modernisms as multiple, and occurring across various temporalities and geographies, whilst responding to the drive in postcolonial studies to reshape modernism with an awareness of empire. Analysis of the repetitive dream cycles within and across Schreiner’s texts reveals how she disrupts the conventional chronologies and associated ideologies introduced by colonizers in South Africa in ways that can be interpreted as modernist. Beginning with close readings of the opening scenes in the novels Undine: A Queer Little Child (written 1870s) and The Story of an African Farm (1883), the article then considers the role of alternative temporalities associated with dreams in the short allegory “Three Dreams in a Desert” (1887), to suggest that Schreiner’s “dream time” offers a form of postcolonial resistance to the imposed “imperial clock time” of life under colonial rule

The Victorian Newsletter (Spring 1974)

The Victorian Newsletter is sponsored for the English X Group of the Modern Language Association by New York University and Queens College, City University of New York.Some pages are missing from this record.The Image of the Anima in the Work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti / Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi -- Elections in Victorian Fiction / J. R. Dinwiddy -- Hopkins' Reading of Arnold / Margaret Stothart -- John Tyndall and Tennyson's "Lucretius" / Sharon Mayer Libera -- The Aesthetic Function of the "Weird Seizures" in The Princess / Catherine Barnes Stevenson -- Pipkins and Kettles in Vanity Fair / David Leon Higdon -- Recent Publications: A Selected List / Arthur F. Minerof -- English X New