Olive Schreiner's Racialization of South Africa

Olive Schreiner was an English-born South African writer who wrote for British readers at a time when relations between Great Britain and her country were in turmoil. She spoke of a South Africa under British rule when its colonial empire was starting to disintegrate at the start of the 20th century. She hoped for a new cultural identity to be called "South African," culled from its diverse and warring communities including the culture of the Zulus and the bushmen.