Creator
Dr Janet Remmington is co-editor with Professor Bhekizizwe Peterson and Dr Brian Willan of Sol Plaatje’s Native Life in South Africa: Past and Present (Wits University Press, 2016). She has a PhD in black South African literary history from the University of York, the institution at which Bheki Peterson obtained his MA in Southern African studies.
This is an edited extract of Janet Remmington’s chapter titled ‘Olive Schreiner, Race and Black South Africa’, from Olive Schreiner: Writing Networks and Global Contexts
Having conducted the bulk of his study during apartheid, which informed his scholarship, Peterson left us with provocations for the future
