In Pursuit of Doris Lessing

The phenomenon of Doris Lessing's global reputation and readership is addressed for the first time in In Pursuit of Doris Lessing through a series of essays that also provide a provocative overview of Lessing's long career from The Grass Is Singing, the first of a series of African and woman-centered politically radical works, to her latest galactic and politically conservative works. Nine different Lessings emerge from these essays, forcing us to question received propositions about the universality of literature and the stability of the text and uncovering and recovering in the process the pungent, variable, controversial Lessing who has been and remains as international and transcultural as she is African and English.

Zusammenfassung
The phenomenon of Doris Lessing's reputation and readership is addressed through essays that also provide an overview of Lessing's career from "The Grass is Singing", the first of a series of African and woman-centred politically radical works, to her latest galactic and politically radical works.

Inhalt
Notes on the Contributors - Doris Lessing: 'In the World, but Not of It'; C.Sprague - Reading Doris Lessing's Rhodesian Stories in Zimbabwe; A.Chennells - The Quest and the Quotidian: Doris Lessing in South Africa; E.Bertelsen - Doris Lessing in Pursuit of the English, or, No Small, Personal Voice; C.Hanson - From Supermarket to Schoolroom: Doris Lessing in the United States; E.Cronan Rose - Cultures of Occupation and the Canadian [Con]ScriptChanged My Life'; V.Tiger - Doris Through the Looking Glass: Doris Lessing in France; N.Ward Jouve - A Mixed (B)Lessing: Doris Lessing in Germany; M.Knapp - In the Mi(d)st(s) of Ideology: Reading Doris Lessing in Spain; F.Galv n Reula - A Case of Chronic Anachronisms: Doris Lessing and the USSR; L.M.Peterson - Index