Doris Lessing Book

Introduction Doris Lessing's Border Crossings Alice Ridout and Susan Walkins

1 Horrors of the Breast: Cultural Boundaries and the Abject in The Grass is Singing Edith Frampton Frampton, Edith

2 Inside and Outside Colonial Spaces: Border Crossings in Doris Lessing's African Stories Pat Louw Louw, Pat

3 Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook: An Experiment in Critical Fiction Nick Bentley Bentley, Nick

4 Doris Lessing's Fantastic Children Roberta Rubenstein Rubenstein, Roberta

5 The Jane Somers' Hoax: Aging, Gender and the Literary Marketplace Susan Walkins Walkins, Susan

6 (Not Such) Great Expectations: Unmaking Maternal Ideals in The Fifth Child and We Need to Talk about Kevin Ruth Robbins Robbins, Ruth

7 Doris Lessing's Under My Skin:The Autobiography of a Cosmopolitan 'Third Culture Kid ' Alice Ridout Ridout, Alice

8 Environmental Fables? The Eco-Politics of Doris Lessing's 'Ifrik' Novels Fiona Becket Becket, Fiona

9 The Porous Border Between Fact and Fiction, Empathy and Identification in Doris Lessing's The Cleft Phylhs Sternberg Petrakis Petrakis, Phylhs Sternberg

Afterword: Encompassing Lessing Judith Kegan Gardiner Gardiner, Judith Kegan

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