Title: Doris Lessing
First published: 1994
Description: In search of the 'resting point' that she names in 'The Small Personal Voice' (1957), Doris Lessing also responds to the restlessness of her times as she explores a myriad of individual and communal dislocations in her writing. Through readings of novels from The Grass Is Singing (1950) to The Fifth Child (1988), Margaret Rowe maps many of the literary and cultural negotiations that make Doris Lessing both a maverick and a mainstream novelist.

Examining the pull of paternal and maternal biographical and literary identifications in Lessing, Rowe relates those identifications to the tensions between the ordinary and the visionary in Lessing's fiction.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature, History, Lessing, doris, 1919-2013
Places: England, Africa
People: Doris Lessing (1919-2013)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PR6023.E833 Z85 1994