This is an edited collection offering up-to-date critical coverage
of a wide range of Lessing's work. 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 reflects and explores the incredible variety of
Lessing's border crossings and positions her writing in its various
social and cultural contexts. Lessing crosses literal national
borders in her life and work, but more controversial have been her
crossings of genre borders into sci-fi and 'space fiction', and her
crossing of ideological borders such as moving into and out of the
Communist Party and from a colonial into a post-colonial world.
This timely collection also considers a number of the most
interesting recent critical and theoretical approaches to Lessing's
writing, including work on maternity and abjection in relation to
"The Fifth Child" and "The Grass is Singing", eco-criticism in
Lessing's 'Ifrakan' novels, and postcolonial re-writings of
landscape in her African Stories.
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