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Sinopsis

This is an edited collection offering up-to-date critical coverage of a wide range of Lessing’s work. Despite winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing has received relatively little critical attention. One of the reasons for this is that Lessing has spent much of her lifetime and her long published writing career crossing both national and ideological borders. This essay collection reflects and explores the incredible variety of Lessing’s border crossings and positions her writing in its various social and cultural contexts. Lessing crosses literal national borders in her life and work, but more controversial have been her crossings of genre borders into sci-fi and ’space fiction’, and her crossing of ideological borders such as moving into and out of the Communist Party and from a colonial into a post-colonial world. This timely collection also considers a number of the most interesting recent critical and theoretical approaches to Lessing’s writing, including work on maternity and abjection in relation to "The Fifth Child" and "The Grass is Singing", eco-criticism in Lessing’s ’Ifrakan’ novels, and postcolonial re-writings of landscape in her African Stories.

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Alice Ridout is Assistant Professor in the English and Film Department at Algoma University, Sault St. Marie, Canada where she teaches in the fields of Contemporary, Canadian, Children’s and Popular Literature. Her work has appeared in the journals Adaptation, Margaret Atwood Studies, Doris Lessing Studies, and the University of Toronto Quarterly. She is Website Editor for the Doris Lessing Society and was President from 2012-2015. She also serves on the Editorial Board for Doris Lessing Studies and was Book Reviews Co-editor for Contemporary Women’s Writing from 2009-2011. Along with her two publications with Bloomsbury Publishing, she is also co-editor of Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook After Fifty (2015).

Susan Watkins is Reader in Twentieth-Century Women's Fiction at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. She is author of Twentieth Century Women Novelists: Feminist Theory into Practice (Palgrave, 2001), co-editor of Scandalous Fictions: The Twentieth Century Novel in the Public Sphere (Palgrave, 2006) and an associate editor of the journal Contemporary Women's Writing (Oxford). She was also editor of a special issue of The Journal of Commonwealth Literature on Doris Lessing (March 2008).

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9781441104168: Doris Lessing: Border Crossings: 190 (Continuum Literary Studies)

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ISBN 10:  144110416X ISBN 13:  9781441104168
Editorial: Continuum, 2011
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