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Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook After Fifty

  • Alice Ridout
  • Roberta Rubenstein
  • Sandra Singer
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      Alice Ridout, Roberta Rubenstein, Sandra Singer
      Pages 1-9

  3. Politics and Geopolitics

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 11-11
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    2. “Across the Frontiers”: Reading Africa in The Golden Notebook
      Julie Cairnie
      Pages 13-31
    3. Doris Lessing and the Madness of Nuclear Deterrence
      Mark Pedretti
      Pages 33-53
    4. “Through That Gap the Future Might Pour”: Dreaming the Post-Cold War World in The Golden Notebook
      Cornelius Collins
      Pages 55-72
    5. Feminist Commitment to Left-Wing Realism in The Golden Notebook
      Sandra Singer
      Pages 73-95

  4. Autobiographical, Aesthetic, and Theoretical Reconsiderations

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 97-97
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    2. The Golden Notebook, Disguised Autobiography, and Roman à Clef
      Roberta Rubenstein
      Pages 99-114
    3. Between Modernism and Postmodernism: Positioning The Golden Notebook in the Twentieth-Century Canon
      Tonya Krouse
      Pages 115-134
    4. “So Why Write Novels?” The Golden Notebook, Mikhail Bakhtin, and the Politics of Authorship
      Sophia Barnes
      Pages 135-152
    5. Rereading The Golden Notebook After Chick Lit
      Alice Ridout
      Pages 153-169

  5. “Timing Is All”: Personal Reminiscences

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 171-171
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    2. The Golden Notebook, Serendipity, and Me
      Paul Schlueter
      Pages 173-180
    3. I Remember Doris Lessing and Her Illimitable Novel
      Jonah Raskin
      Pages 181-193
    4. Timing Is All: The Golden Notebook Then and Now
      Florence Howe
      Pages 195-208
    5. The Golden Notebook: First Impact and Revisionary Reading
      Gillian Beer
      Pages 209-211
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 213-221
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About this book

Introduction

Published in 1962, Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook merits fresh theoretical, geopolitical, autobiographical, and aesthetic approaches. Prompted by the novel's golden anniversary, the twelve essays collected in this volume provide fresh analyses along with appreciative memoirs for 21st century readers of this well-known masterpiece.

Keywords

Analyse Modernism novel postmodernism realism

Editors and affiliations

  • Alice Ridout
    • 1
  • Roberta Rubenstein
    • 2
  • Sandra Singer
    • 3
  1. 1.Department of English and FilmAlgoma UniversitySault Ste. MarieCanada
  2. 2.American UniversityUSA
  3. 3.University of GuelphCanada

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