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 f...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.展开更多
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...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.展开更多
文摘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.
基金This article is supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(SWU1709448).
文摘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.
