Difficult women, artful lives
Subtitle: Olive Schreiner and Isak Dinesen, in and out of Africa
By: Susan R. Horton.
Series: Parallax; Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920 -- Homes and haunts -- South Africa.; Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962 -- Homes and haunts -- Kenya.; Women and literature -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.; Authors, South African -- 20th century -- Biography.; Authors, Danish -- 20th century -- Biography.; Women, White -- Africa -- Biography.; Africa -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Africa -- In literature.
Description: "Horton offers a truly original approach to her subjects -- sophisticated, probing, daring. Her book is an important contribution to scholarship on both writers and to a rethinking of how we approach writers from the 'contact zone.'." -- Sidonie Smith, Binghamton University.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-304) and index.