TY  - BOOK
AU  - Treagus, Mandy
AB  - Empire Girls: the colonial heroine comes of age is a critical examination of three novels by writers from different regions of the British Empire: Olive Schreiner’s The Story of An African Farm (South Africa), Sara Jeannette Duncan’s A Daughter of Today (Canada) and Henry Handel Richardson’s The Getting of Wisdom (Australia). All three novels commence as conventional Bildungsromane, yet the plots of all diverge from the usual narrative structure, as a result of both their colonial origins and the clash between their aspirational heroines and the plots available to them. In an analysis including gender, empire, nation and race, Empire Girls provides new critical perspectives on the ways in which this dominant narrative form performs very differently when taken out of its metropolitan setting.
DO  - 10.20851/empire-girls
ID  - OAPEN ID: 560095
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 897578149
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33182
KW  - south african literature
KW  - sara jeanette duncan
KW  - australian literature
KW  - a daughter of today
KW  - kunstlerromanimperialism
KW  - mandy treagus
KW  - bildungsroman
KW  - brithish empire
KW  - empire girls
KW  - colonial heroine
KW  - female protagonist
KW  - henry handel richardson
KW  - white women's writing
KW  - othering
KW  - feminism
KW  - canadadian literature
KW  - olive schreiner
KW  - the story of an african farm
KW  - the getting of wisdom
KW  - Kendal
KW  - Patriarchy
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33182/1/560095.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33182/1/560095.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36552
PB  - University of Adelaide Press
PY  - 2014
TI  - Empire Girls: the colonial heroine comes of agenull
ER  - 
