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The mother-daughter conflict in selected works by Doris Lessing
Bibliography: leaves 166-180.
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| author | Hunter, Eva Shireen |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/7592 The mother-daughter conflict in selected works by Doris Lessing Hunter, Eva Shireen Cartwright, John English Bibliography: leaves 166-180. The central characters in Doris Lessing's novels are usually women struggling to shape for themselves a new and authentic identity in a changing world. In this study it is argued that this quest involves the Lessing character in a conflict less with any man than with another woman. This woman is the mother. The younger woman's task is to resist the compulsion to become like her mother and so lead a narrow, entirely domesticated life. The theme of the mother-daughter conflict is given its first extensive examination in this study. Three of Lessing's works are analysed in detail, while brief reference is made to nearly all of her novels and some African short stories. The three works selected, The Grass is Singing (1950), "To Room Nineteen" (1963), and The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (1980), mark the beginning, an approximate mid-point, and the conclusion of the theme under discussion. They are also works that have not, as yet, enjoyed the exhaustive critical attention given to the Children of Violence series and The Golden Notebook. 2014-09-22T07:52:08Z 2014-09-22T07:52:08Z 1985 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7592 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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