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Doris Lessing : border crossings /

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 refl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013
Otros Autores: Ridout, Alice, Watkins, Susan, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2009.
Colección:Continuum literary studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Horrors of the breast : cultural boundaries and the abject in The Grass is singing / Edith Frampton
  • Inside and outside colonial spaces : border crossings in Doris Lessing's African stories' / Pat Louw
  • Doris Lessing's The golden notebook : an experiment in critical fiction / Nick Bentley
  • Doris Lessing's fantastic children / Roberta Rubenstein
  • The 'Jane Somers' hoax : aging, gender and the literary marketplace / Susan Watkins
  • (Not such) Great expectations : unmaking maternal ideals in The fifth child and We need to talk about Kevin / Ruth Robbins
  • Doris Lessing's Under my skin : the autobiography of a cosmopolitan 'third culture kid' / Alice Ridout
  • Environmental fables? The eco-politics of Doris Lessing's 'Ifrik' novels / Fiona Becket
  • The porous border between fact and fiction, empathy and identification in Doris Lessing's The cleft / Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis
  • Afterword / Judith Kegan Gardiner.