JOURNAL ARTICLE

Unsettlement: Destabilizing Development in Southern Africa's Settler Fiction.

  • Published In: ELH, 2023, v. 90, n. 1. P. 205 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Reinken, Brian 3 of 3

Abstract

In the midst of a turbulent decade, Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm (1883) and H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines (1885) registered the uncertain future of British colonialism in southern Africa by endowing their white protagonists with alternative possible selves whose pluralism complements the alternative possible instantiations of the settler colony. Forking, parallel, and recursive developmental trajectories lead these novels' characters toward multiple, sometimes contradictory, future states. What results is a dynamic, antiteleological model of Bildung that conceives of the self as a pluralized assortment of potential subjects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:ELH. 2023/03, Vol. 90, Issue 1, p205
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0013-8304
  • DOI:10.1353/elh.2023.0007
  • Accession Number:162239907
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