English Literature / Unit 18 ENL 1727 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Doris Lessing's Africa
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The idea
Doris Lessing, raised in Southern Rhodesia, drew on Africa throughout her work. Her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, of nineteen fifty, the anchor says, depicts a white farming couple, their Black servant, and the cruelty and hypocrisy of the colour bar.
In practice
A farm, a servant, the colour bar.
Where people slip
Lessing wrote as a white settler's daughter.
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