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    Between Scholarship and Imagination: A Fictional Interpretation of the South African Writer and Social Theorist Olive Schreiner, 1855-1920.

    Caulfield JL 2022.pdf (1.944Mb)
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    Open access
    Authors
    Caulfield, Janice Leonie
    Date
    2022
    Supervisor
    Rachel Robertson
    Per Henningsgaard
    Type
    Thesis
    Award
    PhD
    
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    Faculty
    Humanities
    School
    School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88093
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    Abstract

    My creative production, 'A Woman of Passion', a novel about Olive Schreiner, South Africa's first white woman novelist and social thinker, required me to address questions raised about fictionalising a real life subject. My exegesis examines debates around Historiography, Biography and Fiction. The tension for writers of bio-fiction is between producing a novel that is trustworthy and at the same time original. My research questions address fiction's capacity for truth, and authenticity. By examining my own creative process, how I have negotiated between scholarship and imagination, I attempt to answer these questions.

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