| In Pursuit of Doris Lessing: Nine Nations Reading 1990 Edition Contributor(s): Sprague, Claire (Editor) |
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ISBN: 134920756X ISBN-13: 9781349207565 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 823.914 |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.51 lbs) 163 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |