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Doris Lessing: Border Crossings

Doris Lessing: Border Crossings

Watkins, Susan
Ridout, Alice
Alice Ridout

Paperback

Series: Continuum Literary Studies, Book 190

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 144110416X
ISBN13: 9781441104168
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Dec 22 2011
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Despite winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing has received relatively little critical attention. One of the reasons for this is that Lessing has spent much of her lifetime and her long published writing career crossing both national and ideological borders.
This essay collection reflects and explores the incredible variety of Lessing's border crossings and positions her writing in its various social and cultural contexts. Lessing crosses literal national borders in her life and work, but more controversial have been her crossings of genre borders into sci-fi and space fiction, and her crossing of ideological borders such as moving into and out of the Communist Party and from a colonial into a post-colonial world. This timely collection also considers a number of the most interesting recent critical and theoretical approaches to Lessing's writing, including work on maternity and abjection in relation to The Fifth Child and The Grass is Singing, eco-criticism in Lessing's 'Ifrakan' novels, and postcolonial re-writings of landscape in her African Stories.

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