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Doris Lessing

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  • © 1994
  • Latest edition

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Authors:
  1. Margaret Moan Rowe

    1. West Lafayette, USA

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Part of the book series: Women Writers (WW)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. The Far Counties: Lessing’s Early Years

    • Margaret Moan Rowe
    Pages 1-12

  3. Two Versions of a White African Girlhood: The Grass Is Singing and Children of Violence

    • Margaret Moan Rowe
    Pages 13-28

  4. The Sex War: Martha Quest, A Proper Marriage, and The Golden Notebook

    • Margaret Moan Rowe
    Pages 29-45

  5. ‘Charting the New Territory’: The Four-Gated City

    • Margaret Moan Rowe
    Pages 47-58

  6. Parables of Inner Space: Briefing for a Descent into Hell, The Summer Before the Dark, and The Memoirs of a Survivor

    • Margaret Moan Rowe
    Pages 59-76

  7. ‘Many a Planet by Many a Sun’: Canopus in Argos

    • Margaret Moan Rowe
    Pages 77-90

  8. Re-entry: The Diaries of Jane Somers, The Good Terrorist, and The Fifth Child

    • Margaret Moan Rowe
    Pages 91-109

  9. ‘The Battle of the Books’: Lessing and the Critics

    • Margaret Moan Rowe
    Pages 111-123

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 125-137
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About this book

Through close readings of Doris Lessing's novels from The Grass is Singing to The Fifth Child, Margaret Moan Rowe maps many of the literary and cultural negotiations that make Doris Lessing both a maverick and a mainstream novelist. Examining the pull of paternal and maternal biographical and literary identification in Lessing, Rowe relates them to the tensions between the ordinary and the visionary in her fiction.

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  • West Lafayette, USA

    Margaret Moan Rowe

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