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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Doris Lessing"”.
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The Alienated Character in Selected Short Stories of Doris Lessing
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The mother-daughter conflict in selected works by Doris Lessing
The central characters in Doris Lessing's novels are usually women struggling to shape for themselves a new and authentic identity in a changing world. In this study it is argued that this quest involves the Lessing character in a conflict less with any man than with another woman. This woman is …
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Psychodynamic perspectives on the master-servant relationship and its representation in the work of Doris Lessing, Es'kia Mphahlele and Nadine Gordimer
… politicians, but primarily from the fiction of Doris Lessing, Es'kia Mphahlele and Nadine Gordimer. Furthermore, it is pointed out how patriarchy, capitalism and colonialism can be interpreted in the light of the dynamics proposed by Klein; it is argued that South Africa is a patriarchal, …
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A sense of place in selected African works by Doris Lessing read in conjunction with novels of education by contemporary white South African women writers
… a more intensive reading of certain works by Doris Lessing set in Southern Africa than has yet been attempted, and reads them,• for the first time, in conjunction with a particular literary lineage within Southern African letters, the novel of education by white women. The works by Lessing …
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Female Friendships in Doris Lessing's Novels (Zimbabwe)
The nature and scope of Lessing's feminism has been controversial, yet the apparent contradiction between Lessing's avowed lack of sympathy with the women's movement, and feminists' persistent interest in her work can be resolved by understanding the parameters of Lessing's identification with …
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Living With Men : A Novel
… by such contemporary authors as Midge Dector and Doris Lessing.
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A post-colonial ecocritical analysis of selected African texts: A case of lessing's the grass is singing and Mungoshi's waiting for the rain
… thesis analyses The Grass is Singing (1950) by Doris Lessing and Waiting for the Rain (1975) by Charles Mungoshi from a post-colonial ecocritical perspective. Ecocriticism unifies humanity and nature, whilst post-colonialism focuses on issues pertaining to power, religion and culture, with …
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Wildness in Doris Lessing's African stories
Doris Lessing's two volumes of African Stories, This Was the Old Chiefs Country and The Sun Between Their Feet, are an important part of her African writings. Perhaps not as well known as her novel, The Grass is Singing, and The Children of Violence series, the stories reflect her childhood and …
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Adrift at home: National belonging and narrative form in the rooms of twentieth-century British fiction
… Bowen, J.G. Farrell, Jean Rhys, Sam Selvon, Doris Lessing, and W.G. Sebald, I analyze how representations of destabilized interior spaces are mobilized on behalf of larger arguments about imperial politics in which the relatively stable framework of national identity in the nineteenth century …
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The love dialectic
… Of the artists, Katherine Anne Porter, Doris Lessing, Joyce Carol Oates, and Christina Stead representing three countries and, the two Americans, different regions, each is master of a distinct style. Moreover, I have been selective in dealing with the canons. There is no attempt to …