20th century
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African writings
Author_Lorna Sage
authority
Blue Notebook
boundaries of self in modern novels
British Antarctic Expedition
British Colonial Society
Canopean Agents
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contemporary writers
cultural change
cultural identity studies
De Wets
Doris Lessing
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Fairy Tale
feminist literary criticism
FGC.
Final Unity
Free Women
Galactic Empires
Golden Notebook
Inside Story
Lessing's Tone
Lessing’s Tone
literature
Love Love Love
Martha Quest
Mrs Quest
narrative experimentation
postcolonial literature
realist tradition
self
sexuality
Small Personal Voice
Southern Rhodesia
space fiction
space fiction exploration
Space Pirates
Speculative Fiction
The Golden Notebook
twentieth century fiction analysis
Yellow Notebook
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367336646
- Weight: 108g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Doris Lessing was one of the most impressive, prolific and vital of twentieth century writers. Her fiction is obsessed with the workings of cultural change and she radically extended the novel’s scope – most famously and influentially in The Golden Notebook – by questioning the realist tradition she inherited and the wider social beliefs about self, sexuality and authority which that tradition symbolized.
This study, originally published in 1983, surveys her epic output from her early, African writings to her later experiments with space fiction. It traces her struggles to decentre imaginative life and to erase and to redraw the boundaries of our mental maps in favour of values on the margins of the official culture.
