In Pursuit of Doris Lessing
Nine Nations Reading
Published on 1. January 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
IX, 163 pages
978-1-349-20756-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
1st ed. 1990
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
IX, 163 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
230 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-20756-5 (9781349207565)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-20754-1
Schweitzer Classification
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Content
Notes on the Contributors - Doris Lessing: 'In the World, but Not of It'; C.Sprague - Reading Doris Lessing's Rhodesian Stories in Zimbabwe; A.Chennells - The Quest and the Quotidian: Doris Lessing in South Africa; E.Bertelsen - Doris Lessing in Pursuit of the English, or, No Small, Personal Voice; C.Hanson - From Supermarket to Schoolroom: Doris Lessing in the United States; E.Cronan Rose - Cultures of Occupation and the Canadian [Con]Script[ion]: 'Lessing Changed My Life'; V.Tiger - Doris Through the Looking Glass: Doris Lessing in France; N.Ward Jouve - A Mixed (B)Lessing: Doris Lessing in Germany; M.Knapp - In the Mi(d)st(s) of Ideology: Reading Doris Lessing in Spain; F.Galv n Reula - A Case of Chronic Anachronisms: Doris Lessing and the USSR; L.M.Peterson - Index