Although Olive Schreiner features in most literary criticism as a champion of the disenfranchised, her portrayal of ethnic differences is inflected by transatlantic racial politics. The Irish and Boers in The Story of an African Farm conform to the Anglo-Saxon definitions of race and citizenship not only in southern Africa but also in the United States. Schreiner’s interest in Emerson and Carlyle, her dislike of rigid religious doctrines, and her vocal feminism account for the one-dimensionality of her Irish and Boer characters in her early work. This essay describes the enlarged geography of Bonaparte Blenkins – the influences that place the Irish–South African connections in Schreiner’s writing within, among other things, the context of racialization of the Irish in the late nineteenth-century United States.

尽管在大多数文学批评中，奥利夫·施莱纳（Olive Schreiner）都以被剥夺公民权利为荣，但她对种族差异的描绘却受到跨大西洋种族政治的影响。《非洲农场的故事》中的爱尔兰人和布尔人不仅在南部非洲而且在美国都符合盎格鲁撒克逊人关于种族和公民身份的定义。施莱纳对爱默生和卡莱尔的兴趣，对僵化宗教学说的厌恶以及她的声音女权主义使她早期工作中的爱尔兰和布尔角色具有一维性。本文描述了Bonaparte Blenkins的广阔地理环境–在19世纪后期美国将爱尔兰人种族化的背景下，施莱纳的著作中将爱尔兰与南非的联系置于影响之中。