Doris Lessing’s Farm Writing and Capitalist Colonial Space Production

Farm is a vital image in Doris Lessing’s fiction,which is also a result of colonial space production.Through a series of discriminative land policies in a colonial society,the white farmers implement labour exploitation towards natives.Meanwhile,this space also presents various contradictions among whites.Moreover,colonial space production also leads to the deconstruction of natural space.Lessing’s farm writing reveals her nostalgia of the natural landscape when the farm hasn’t been involved with the capitalist space production and her concern for human beings’unity.

Mobility and the Experiences of Loss-Gender and Identity Crisis in Doris Lessing’s The Summer before the Dark

In the 1950s,international division of labor began to expand in the context of globalization,which is illustrated by the expansion of labor division in the global Coffee industry in The Summer before the Dark.From the perspective of globalization,Lessing vividly reproduced the urban division space caused by the influence of mobility(generally referring to the horizontal flow of mobile individuals and capital)in Britain when widespread inflation and strikes happening,resulting in social polarization and a series of loss of experiences.They not only reflect the declining imperial image of Britain while the colonies successively declare independence,but also indicate the mental state of British citizens under the impact of globalization.

On Existentialism in Doris Lessing`s One off the Short List

Doris Lessing's short story--One off the Short List,like most of her famed novels,is a manifestation of individual's living state in the lonely and absurd world.In this thesis,the writer attempts to interpret this story from the view of Sartrean existentialism by analyzing the middle aged protagonist's special journey of exploring himself with suffering of being“others”so as to indicate Lessing's pessimistic attitude to modern people's existence.

The Destruction of Diasporic White Individuals’Sense of Identity in The Grass is Singing

The importance of diaspora identity has grown in recent years as the world becomes more interconnected and diaspora individuals are increasingly involved in matters among different ethnics.The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing is considered one of the most outstanding works of literature after World War II.Interest in ethnic identity has been heightened.The book is recognized as an introspective reflection of the spiritual crisis suffered by diaspora people and societal crises of the time.The thesis will examine the oppression imposed by dominant white group by exploring the transformation of diasporic white individuals’identity.

Between Convention and Innovation -A Border Crossing in The Summer Before the Dark

Alice Ridout and Susan Watkins offers a best perspective in their book Doris Lessing： Border Crossings, to contemplate Lessing’s writing. In her 57-year publishing career, Lessing always crosses the borders： as a feminist or anti-feminist, as a science fiction writer or a realist who lost her way, as a Marxist or a reactionary, as a British writer or a postcolonial one. Lessing’s border-crossing not only lies in her different genres of writing or in different novels, but even in a single comparatively traditional novel. The Summer Before the Dark is a representative work of Lessing’s women portrayal transition from focusing on their outside world exploration to on their inner world seeking. This essay tries to look at the content and form of the novel, and to illustrate that Lessing’s border-crossing is also fulfilled in one single novel. She successfully crosses the border of convention and innovation： conventional in content, while innovative in form.

The Outcasts in The Grass Is Singing

The Grass Is Singing written by a British writer Doris Lessing,there are two main characters-Mary Turner and Dick Turner.They are white immigrants in South Africa and they fail to fit in both the white community and the local community.The difficulty in entering the community causes their identity crisis and leads to their tragedy.The reason why they are rejected by the community can be divided into two parts:the inner factor and outer factor.

Marie's Suffering in A Road to the Big City from the Perspective of Feminism

Some scholars concerns about the conflicts between Marie and Lilla, but few of them studies the conflicts between femaleand male in the novel. In the novel, Marie's suffering is not only from the fraudulence of her sister, but also from the oppression ofmale by the perspective of feminism.In the family, it implies that she is oppressed by male, which can be understood from the differ-ence of their jobs and the traditional image of her mother, while in the society, she suffers a lot from Jansen, which can be seen fromthe descriptive perspective of appearance of Marie, the dialogue between waitress and Jansen, the dialogue between Marie and Jan-sen as well as Jansen's decision to the leaving of Marie. The double oppression of Marie's suffering both reflects the unequal posi-tion of male and female.By this analysis, it can impulse female to improve themselves and it also calls on female to get along wellwith male by the appropriate way.

Suffering and Resistance in A Woman on a Roof Based on Disciplinary Power Theory

Known as the literary evergreen tree,Doris Lessing is a prolific and significant British novelist,poet,playwright,librettist,biographer as well as short story writer.Meanwhile,her works cover a wide range of subjects and reflect deep implications because she is good at observing and capturing human subtle and rich emotion.A Woman on a Roof is a famous short story of Doris Lessing,and studies on it are also not enough.Therefore,this paper intends to make a detailed and theoretical analysis on the suffering and resistance in Lessing’s A Woman on a Roof from the perspective of Foucault’s disciplinary power theory.Through the analysis of different victims in the story,a conclusion is to be brought forth that a disciplinary society is permeated with the power relations and resistance spirit.