{"product_id":"the-fiction-of-doris-lessing-9789390176908","title":"The Fiction Of Doris Lessing","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ratna Raman\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (IN)\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic India\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Women Authors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNominated for the 2023 Teaching Literature Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDoris Lessing (1919–2013), a prolific contemporary author, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007 for her life work. Examining five decades of Lessing's unique life, narrative strategies, and the literary traditions that she drew upon and improvised, this book highlights her extraordinary significance as a writer of our times and for our times. Lessing's fiction and non-fiction provide a seminal understanding of the key issues that shaped the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAutodidactic and keenly interested in the world around her, Lessing flagged the problems of racism in Africa; the inequity of class in modern England; the limitations of white, middle-class women's movements that overlooked the rights of women across race and class; the marginalisation of individuals; the horror of nuclear war and the need for disarmament; and the hazardous global expansion in the face of unrelenting technological progress. Further, she raised the concern of the atomisation of modern families, violence and the urgent need for alternate modes of viewing, voicing anxieties decades ahead of other contemporary writers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMaking futuristic projections through innumerable genres of writing, such as realistic narratives, memoirs, diaries and science fiction, Lessing examines myth, psychoanalysis and Marxist perspectives, engaging with a gamut of experiences that have defined modernity, and sets up feminist blueprints that challenge atrophying patriarchal hegemonies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (IN)","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46359569236119,"sku":"9789390176908","price":845.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789390176908.webp?v=1769306228","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-fiction-of-doris-lessing-9789390176908","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}