
Doris Lessing
Susan Watkins(Author)
Manchester University Press
Will be published approx. on 9. November 2010
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-7190-7481-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 connections between them.
The book examines the entire range of her writing, including her most recent fiction and non-fiction, which have been comparatively neglected. The book is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students of Doris Lessing's work as well as the general reader who enjoys her writing. This is the first significant book-length critical evaluation in ten years. -- .
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 connections between them.
The book examines the entire range of her writing, including her most recent fiction and non-fiction, which have been comparatively neglected. The book is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students of Doris Lessing's work as well as the general reader who enjoys her writing. This is the first significant book-length critical evaluation in ten years. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-7481-3 (9780719074813)
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Susan Watkins
Doris Lessing
E-Book
07/2013
11th Edition
Manchester University Press
€24.49
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Person
Susan Watkins is Reader in Twentieth-Century Women's Fiction in the School of Cultural Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University -- .
Content
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's Late-Twentieth-Century Fiction
6. Sweet Dreams and Rememories: Narrating the Nation and Identity
7. Critical Overview and Conclusion
Bibliography -- .
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's Late-Twentieth-Century Fiction
6. Sweet Dreams and Rememories: Narrating the Nation and Identity
7. Critical Overview and Conclusion
Bibliography -- .