Doris Lessing

by Watkins Susan and Susan Watkins

This study examines the writing career of the respected and prolific novelist Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719097347
• ISBN13: 9780719097348
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"