From the Margins of Empire : : Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer / / Louise Yelin.
Situated at the intersection of the colonial and the postcolonial, the modern and the postmodern, the novelists Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, and Nadine Gordimer all bear witness to this century's global transformations. From the Margins of Empire looks at how the question of national identit...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Reading Women Writing
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: From the Margins of Empire
- Part I: Christina Stead: Buffoon Odyssey?
- 1. Unsettling Australia: The Man Who Loved Children as National Family Romance
- 2. "Buffoon Odyssey"?: For Love Alone and the Writing of Exile
- Part II. Doris Lessing: In Pursuit of the English
- 3. The Englishing of Doris Lessing
- 4. 'Integrated with British Life at Its Roots": The Construction of British Identity in The Golden Notebook
- 5. Reading Doris Lessing with Margaret Thatcher: The Good Terrorist, The Fifth Child, and England in the 1980s
- Part III. Nadine Gordimer: Literature and Politics in South Africa
- 6. European Genealogies and South African Identity in Burger's Daughter
- 7. Decolonizing the Novel: A Sport of Nature as Postcolonial Picaresque
- 8. Beyond Identity: The Poetics of Nonracialism and the Politics of Cultural Translation in My Son's Story
- Conclusion: Writing beyond the Margins
- Works Cited
- Index