English Literature / Unit 17 ENL 1628 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Doris Lessing
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The idea
Doris Lessing, born in Iran and raised in Southern Rhodesia, wrote The Grass Is Singing, of nineteen fifty, on racism in southern Africa, and The Golden Notebook, of nineteen sixty-two, in which a writer keeps four notebooks and seeks to unite them in a fifth. She won the Nobel Prize.
In practice
Africa, politics, the divided self.
Where people slip
The Golden Notebook is structurally experimental.
Your place on the trail
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