In Pursuit of Doris Lessing

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Claire Sprague

   Pages 1-16

3. Reading Doris Lessing’s Rhodesian Stories in Zimbabwe

   • Anthony Chennells

   Pages 17-40

4. The Quest and the Quotidian: Doris Lessing in South Africa

   • Eve Bertelsen

   Pages 41-60

5. Doris Lessing in Pursuit of the English, or, No Small, Personal Voice

   • Clare Hanson

   Pages 61-73

6. From Supermarket to Schoolroom: Doris Lessing in the United States

   • Ellen Cronan Rose

   Pages 74-88

7. Cultures of Occupation and the Canadian [Con]Script[ion]: ‘Lessing Changed My Life’

   • Virginia Tiger

   Pages 89-101

8. Doris through the French Looking-Glass

   • Nicole Ward Jouve

   Pages 102-112

9. The German Doris Lessing: A Mixed [B]Lessing

   • Mona Knapp

   Pages 113-127

10. Doris Lessing in the Mi[d]st[s] of Ideology: The Spanish Reading

    • Fernando Galván Reula

    Pages 128-141

11. A Case of Chronic Anachronisms: Doris Lessing and the USSR

    • Lorna M. Peterson

    Pages 142-157

12. Back Matter

    Pages 158-163

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The phenomenon of Doris Lessing's global reputation and readership is addressed for the first time in In Pursuit of Doris Lessing through a series of essays that also provide a provocative overview of Lessing's long career from The Grass Is Singing, the first of a series of African and woman-centered politically radical works, to her latest galactic and politically conservative works. Nine different Lessings emerge from these essays, forcing us to question received propositions about the universality of literature and the stability of the text and uncovering and recovering in the process the pungent, variable, controversial Lessing who has been and remains as international and transcultural as she is African and English.

• Africa
• African
• English
• English literature
• essay
• France
• German
• Germany
• ideology
• literature
• nation
• proposition
• rose
• time
• USA

• New York University, USA

  Claire Sprague

• The City University of New York, USA

  Claire Sprague

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