Doris Lessing

Susan Watkins

doi:10.7765/9781847793546

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 who 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, looking at the entire range of her writing, including her most recent fiction and non-fiction, which have been comparatively neglected.

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Front matter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Series editor’s foreword
pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Chronology
pp ix-xii

1 - Contexts and intertexts
pp 1-30

2 - Going ‘home’: Exile and nostalgia in the writing of Doris Lessing
pp 31-52

3 - The politics of loss: Melancholy cosmopolitanism
pp 53-82

4 - The voice of authority?
pp 83-118

5 - Writing in a minor key: Doris Lessing’s late-twentieth-century fiction
pp 119-139

6 - Sweet dreams and rememories: Narrating nation and identity
pp 140-163

7 - Critical overview and conclusion
pp 164-184

Notes
pp 185-217

Bibliography
pp 218-234

Index
pp 235-243

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