Doris Lessing:
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Main Author: Watkins, Susan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester Manchester University Press 2010
Series:Contemporary world writers
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Item Description:9780719074813; 9780719074813; Copyright Page; Contents; Series editor's foreword; Acknowledgements; Chronology; 1 Contexts and intertexts; 2 Going 'home': exile and nostalgia in the writing of Doris Lessing; 3 The politics of loss:melancholy cosmopolitanism; 4 The voice of authority?; 5 Writing in a minor key: Doris Lessing'slate-twentieth-century fiction; 6 Sweet dreams and rememories:narrating nation and identity; 7 Critical overview and conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
This study examines the writing career of the respected and prolific novelist Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 and has recently published what she has announced will be her final novel. Whereas earlier assessments have focused on Lessing?s relationship with feminism and the impact of her 1962 novel, The Golden Notebook, this book argues that Lessing's writing was formed by her experiences of the colonial encounter; it makes use of postcolonial theory and criticism to examine Lessing's continued interest in ideas of nation, empire, gender and race and the co
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (257 pages)
ISBN:1847793541
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