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The book takes a hard look at internal developments and class
formation in the region and explores the complex dynamics
underlying the 'failure' of socialist transformation, demystifying
the highly-simplified 'destabilisation' thesis and pointing to some
of the problems that forces for change in South Africa itself may
have to face in the 1990s. The chapters make significant reference
to changing present and future relations with South Africa, and to
the impact of internal changes on the development of neighbouring
countries.
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.
Long before John Barth announced in his famous 1967 essay that late
twentieth-century fiction was "The Literature of Exhaustion,"
authors have been retelling and recycling stories. Barth was,
however, right to identify in postmodern fiction a particular
self-consciousness about its belatedness at the end of a long
literary tradition. This book traces the move in contemporary
women's writing from the self-conscious, ironic parodies of
postmodernism to the nostalgic and historical turn of the
twenty-first century. It analyses how contemporary women writers
deal with their literary inheritances, offering an illuminating and
provocative study of contemporary women writers' re-writings of
previous texts and stories. Through close readings of novels by key
contemporary women writers including Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing,
Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, Emma Tennant and Helen Fielding, and
of the ITV adaptation, Lost in Austen, Alice Ridout examines the
politics of parody and nostalgia, exploring the limitations and
possibilities of both in the contexts of feminism and
postcolonialism.
"Long before John Barth announced in his famous 1967 essay that
late twentieth-century fiction was 'The Literature of Exhaustion,'
authors have been retelling and recycling stories. Barth was,
however, right to identify in postmodern fiction a particular
self-consciousness about its belatedness at the end of a long
literary tradition. This book traces the move in contemporary
women's writing from the self-conscious, ironic parodies of
postmodernism to the nostalgic and historical turn of the
twenty-first century. It analyses how contemporary women writers
deal with their literary inheritances, offering an illuminating and
provocative study of contemporary women writers' re-writings of
previous texts and stories. Through close readings of novels by key
contemporary women writers including Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing,
Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, Emma Tennant and Helen Fielding, and
of the ITV adaptation, Lost in Austen, Alice Ridout examines the
politics of parody and nostalgia, exploring the limitations and
possibilities of both in the contexts of feminism and
postcolonialism."
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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