From the margins of empire : Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer
by
 
Yelin, Louise.

Title
From the margins of empire : Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer

Author
Yelin, Louise.

ISBN
9780801435034
 
9780801485053

Personal Author
Yelin, Louise.

Publication Information
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1998.

Physical Description
ix, 197 p. ; 24 cm.

Series
Reading women writing

Series Title
Reading women writing

Contents
Introduction: From the Margins of Empire -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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.

Personal Subject
Lessing, Doris May, 1919--Political and social views.
 
Stead, Christina, 1902-1983-Political and social views.
 
Gordimer, Nadine-Political and social views.

Subject Term
Commonwealth literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
 
Women and literature -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century.
 
National characteristics, British, in literature.
 
Decolonization in literature.
 
Imperialism in literature.

Geographic Term
Great Britain -- In literature.
 
South Africa -- In literature.
 
Australia -- In literature.


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