DORIS LESSING – COLLECTED AFRICAN STORIES, POLIROM, IAŞI, 2008 Cover Image

DORIS LESSING – POVESTIRI AFRICANE (premiul Nobel 2007), EDITURA POLIROM, IAŞI, 2008
DORIS LESSING – COLLECTED AFRICAN STORIES, POLIROM, IAŞI, 2008

Author(s): Cristian Benţe
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: Africa; clash of cultures; racial inequality

Summary/Abstract: Lessing's fiction is deeply autobiographical, much of it emerging out of her experiences in Africa. Drawing upon her childhood memories and her serious engagement with politics and social concerns, Lessing has written about the clash of cultures, the gross injustices of racial inequality, the struggle among opposing elements within an individuals own personality, and the conflict between the individual conscience and the collective good. Her stories and novellas set in Africa, published during the fifties and early sixties, decry the dispossession of black Africans by white colonials, and expose the sterility of the white culture in Southern Africa.

  • Issue Year: IV/2008
  • Issue No: 02 (13)
  • Page Range: 139-141
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: Romanian