Past Contents

Vol. 35, 2017

Contents

• Letter from the President, Cornelius Collins
• My Life with Doris Lessing Studies, Phyllis Perrakis
• Letter from the Co-Editors, Robin Visel
• Review: Doris Lessing and the Forming of History, Lara Choksey
• “‘Class’ Is not a South African Word’: Parallel Development and “The Place of Black Labor,” Peter Ribic
• African, Communist: Situating Doris Lessing’s “African Dances,” James Arnett
• Prisons We Choose to Live Inside: Doris Lessing Speaks Truth to Power, Eleonora Rao
• “Power to Disturb”: Exploring Iterations of Queerness in Selected Works of Doris Lessing, Stephanie Settle
• Teaching Lessing Primarily to Graduate Students, Sandra Singer
• List of Society Officers

Vol. 34, 2016

Contents

• Letter from the President, Cornelius Collins
• Letter from the Co-Editors, Mark Pedretti and Robin Visel
• After Aldermaston: Doris Lessing and the Problem of Revolution in the Nuclear Age, Mark Pedretti
• Reading Forward: The Fractal Texts of Doris Lessing and David Mitchell, Robin Visel
• Comparative Empires: Diaspora and Hybridity in Children of Violence and Canopus in Argos: Archives, Linda Weinhouse
• Ageism and Gender Performativity in The Summer Before the Dark, Sima Aghazadeh
• Becoming Jane Somers: Constructing Authorship, Genre, and Age in The Diary of a Good Neighbour, Kortney Stern
• She Wrote Past Us: Early Readings of Doris Lessing, Linda Chown
• Review: “So much depends . . . upon distance”: Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook After Fifty, Debrah Raschke
• List of Society Officers

Vol. 33, 2015

Contents

• Letter from the President, Cornelius Collins
• Letter from the Co-Editors, Phyllis Perrakis, Drew Shannon, and Robin Visel
• “After the ‘Colour Bar’: Doris Lessing’s Analysis of Contemporary Racism in ‘Victoria and the Staveneys,'” Christine Sizemore
• “Lacking a Story of Her Own: Susan Rawlings and Narrative in Doris Lessing’s ‘To Room Nineteen,'” Kevin Brown
• “Media and Subjectivity in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook,” Laurel Harris
• “Unlived Lives, Unborn Children in Lessing’s Alfred and Emily and D. H. Lawrence’s Chatterley Novels,” Nancy L. Paxton
• “‘A Hiatus’ in Doris Lessing’s Memory of Her Father: ‘My Father’ and Alfred and Emily,” Sun Hwa Park
• Review of Literary Half-Lives: Doris Lessing, Clancy Sigal, and Roman à Clef by Roberta Rubenstein, Drew Patrick Shannon
• “Doris Lessing: An Appreciation,” Roberta Rubenstein
• List of Society Officers

Vol. 32, 2014

Contents

• Letter from the President, Alice Ridout
• Letter from the Guest Co-editors, Terry Reilly and Robin Visel
• “Doris Lessing and Moidi Jokl: A Reassessment,” Terry Reilly
• “Lessing’s First Post-war London Novel: Retreat to Innocence,” Robin Visel
• “‘Some Sort of Knowledge'” Without Concepts, Without Certainty,” Sookyoung Lee
• “‘Unanchored fragments of print’: Lessing’s Experiments with Drama and Poetry in the Late 1950s,” Nick Bentley
• “Of Pigeons and Expats: Doris Lessing, Sam Selvon, and Zadie Smith,” Alice Ridout
• “A Celebration of the Life of Doris Lessing,” Virginia Tiger
• List of Society Officers

Vol. 31, Nos. 1 & 2, 2013

Contents

• Letter from the President, Alice Ridout
• Letter from the Co-editors, P. Perrakis, S Singer, & J.E.Warnock
• A Catalogue of Failures: Error and Processual Utopia in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, Shannon Maguire
• Towards a Communist Narratology: On the Idea of Communism in Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, Gregory Fenton
• Madness and Mothering in Doris Lessing’s The Four-Gated City (1969), Kerry Myler
• Is A Proper Marriage a Bildungsroman?, Lisa Downward
• Review of Contemporary Writers Look Back: From Irony to Nostalgia by Alice Ridout, Phyllis Perrakis
• Farewell to Literary Immortal, Paul Schlueter
• List of Society Officers

 

Vol. 30, No. 2, 2012

Contents

• Letter from the President, Alice Ridout
• Letter from the Co-editors, Phyllis Perrakis and Sandra Singer
• “On Not Writing (Realist) Characters: The Uncanny Experimentalism of The Grass is Singing,” Dorian Stuber
• “No Climax: The Rhetoric of Incest and Short Story Form in Lessing’s ‘Each Other,'” Judith Kegan Gardiner
• “Looking Back to the Days of Thatcher: Mirroring Familial Relationships in London Observed,” Sandra Singer
• “Reading ‘What Is the Function of the Storyteller?’: A Response to Alice Ridout’s Essay,” Lili Wang
• List of Society Officers

Vol. 30, No. 1, 2012

Special Issue: Gender and Sexualities

Guest Editors: Molly Pulda and Robin Visel

Contents

• Letter from the Co-editors, Molly Pulda and Robin Visel
• “Liberation and Taboo: Normative Sexuality in Lessing’s Fiction,” Robin Visel
• “The Self which Surfaces: Competing Maternal Discourses in A Proper Marriage,” Sherah Wells
• “Free From the Family: Lessing, Klein, and the Unwanted Child,” James Arnett
• “‘The odd man out in the family?’ Queer Throwbacks and Reproductive Futurism in The Fifth Child,” Mica Hilson
• “The Crisis of an Old Order: Gender, Sexual Relations, and Reproduction in Lessing’s The Cleft,” Imke Brust
• List of Society Officers

Vol. 29, No. 2, 2010

Contents

• Letter from the President, Tonya Krouse
• Letter from the Co-editors, Phyllis Perrakis, Sandra Singer and Jeanie E. Warnock
• “War and Genre in Doris Lessing’s Alfred and Emily,” Molly Pulda
• “Dystopia/Utopia in Doris Lessing’s Canopus in Argos novel The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five,” Earl G. Ingersoll
• “Lessing’s Narrative Strategies in The Summer Before The Dark,” Sima Aghazadeh
• “Stating the Problem: Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook and the Possibility of Representation,” Sophia Barnes
• “Cosmopolitanism and the Lessing Canon: Review of Doris Lessing by Susan Watkins,” Sandra Singer
• “White Material: A New Film Loosely Based on The Grass Is Singing,” Paul Schlueter
• List of Society Officers

Vol. 29, No. 1, 2010

Contents

• Letter from the Co-editors, P. Perrakis, S. Singer, and J.E. Warnock
• Letter from the President, Tonya Krouse
• “‘The View from the Threshold’: Doris Lessing’s Nobel Acceptance Speech,” Alice Ridout
• “Lessing’s Engagement with Platonic Idealism in Briefing for a Descent into Hell,” Canan Savkay
• “Almost Human but Not Quite?: The Impenetrability of Being in Doris Lessing’s Ben, In the World,” Meng-Tsung Hsieh
• “Reading Textuality and Sexuality in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook and Luce Irigaray’s This Sex Which Is Not One,” Michael James Griffin II
• Review of Adventures of the Spirit: The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers, Christine W. Sizemore

Vol. 28, No. 2, 2009

Special Issue: Doris Lessing, Nation, Politics, and Identity

Guest Editors: Alice Ridout and Susan Watkins

Contents

• Letter from the Co-editors, Alice Ridout and Susan Watkins
• “The Spectre of the Aged Woman Writer,” Mary Eagleton
• “Re-mapping Centre and Periphery,” Linda Weinhouse
• “Lessing as Gorgon: ‘The Stare’,” Judith Kegan Gardiner
• “Arabian Nights Fairy-tale Turned Postcolonial Parable: Narrative Manoeuvres in Doris Lessing’s Mara and Dann,” Lamia Tayeb
• “A Review of Doris Lessing: Border Crossings, ed. Alice Ridout and Susan Watkins (London: Continuum, 2009),” Sandra Singer
• List of Society Officers

 Vol. 28, No. 1, 2009

Contents

• Letter from the Co-editors, Phyllis Perrakis, Sandra Singer and Jeanie E. Warnock
• Letter from the Out-Going President, Sharon Wilson
• Letter from the In-Coming President, Tonya Krouse
• “‘The Last Walls Dissolve’: Space Versus Architecture in The Memoirs of a Survivor and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’,” Kathy Farquharson
• “‘No Such Thing as Society’: Thatcherism and Derridean Hospitality in The Fifth Child,” Richard Brock
• “Knowledge and Sexual Construction in Lessing’s The Memoirs of a Survivor and The Fifth Child,” Debrah Raschke
• “Postcolonial Identities in The Golden Notebook,” Sharon R. Wilson
• “Life Story: Doris, Alfred and Emily Review of Alfred and Emily,” Virginia Tiger
• “Thinking Global Identities: Review of Identity in Doris Lessing’s Space Fiction,” Sandra Singer
• “A Postcard from Lessing,” Paul Schlueter
• List of Society Officers

Vol. 27, Nos. 1 & 2, 2008

Contents

• Letter from the Co-Editors, Suzette Henke, Jeanie E. Warnock
• “‘Born in the Year 1919’: Doris Lessing, the First World War, and the Children of Violence,” Marlene A. Briggs
• “Reading Doris Lessing’s Golden Notebook As Feminist Trauma Narrative,” Suzette Henke
• “Free Women and Freeman: The Language of Lobotomy in The Golden Notebook,” Terry Reilly
• “‘A fit country for heroes to live in:’ Doris Lessing’s The Good Terrorist as Trauma Text,” Diana Austin
• “An Eye Towards Recovery: Trauma, Nostalgia, and the Bush in African Laughter,” Melissa Walker
• “‘Crested, not Cloven’: The Cleft/Review of The Cleft,” Virginia Tiger
• List of Society Officers

Vol. 26, No. 2, 2007

Contents

• Letter from the Co-Editors, Phyllis Perrakis, Sandra Singer and Jeanie E. Warnock
• Letter from the President, Sharon Wilson
• “Parody and Pastiche in The Golden Notebook,” Yuan-Jung Cheng
• “‘She Was Where?: Lessing, Woolf and their Radical Epistemologies of Place,” Aaron Rosenfeld
• “‘But Let’s Preserve the Forms’: Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook (1962) As a Hegelian Modernist Novel,” Soo Kim
• “Doris Lessing, Socialist Realism, and the Plaasroman,” Julie Cairnie
• “Doris Lessing: the Sufi Connection,” Müge Galin

Vol. 26, No. 1, 2006

Special Issue: Teaching Doris Lessing

Guest Editors: Tonya Krouse and Debrah Raschke

Contents

• Letter from the Guest Co-Editors, Tonya Krouse and Debrah Raschke
• Letter from the President, Sharon Wilson
• “Lessing Pedagogy Post-9/11/01,” Suzette Henke
• “‘Laminations,’ – The Golden Notebook and Babel Tower: ‘The Condition of England Novel’ in a Modern & Contemporary British Fiction Graduate Course,” Virginia Tiger
• “Anthologization and the Places of Doris Lessing and Nadine Gordimer in the Liberal Arts Curriculum,” Terry Reilly
• “Making Room for Doris Lessing in the Survey of British Literature II: Teaching ‘To Room Nineteen’ with Rushdie’s ‘The Prophet’s Hair’,” Tonya Krouse

Vol. 25, No. 2, 2006

Contents

• Letter from the Co-Editors, Phyllis Perrakis, Sandra Singer and Jeanie E. Warnock
• Letter from the Outgoing President, Debrah Raschke
• Letter from the Incoming President, Sharon Wilson
• “Writing in a Minor Key,” Susan Watkins
• “The Politics of the Zimbabwean Everyday in Doris Lessing’s African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe (1992),” Sarah De Mul
• “Historicizing Homophobia in The Golden Notebook and ‘The Day Stalin Died’,” Judith Kegan Gardiner
• “Genealogy and Becoming in the Canopus in Argos: Archives Series,” Lauren Lacey

Vol. 25, No. 1, 2005

Contents

• Letter from the Co-Editors, Phyllis Perrakis, Sandra Singer and Jeanie E. Warnock
• Letter from the President, Debrah Raschke
• “Doris Lessing’s ‘Playing the Game’,” Earl G. Ingersoll
• “‘Sucks to You’: Lessing in London on Woolf,” Amanda Cole
• “‘Aspects of Each Other’: Lessing, Laing, and the Question of Literary Authority,” Byron K. Brown
• “Revisiting Reliable Narration and The Politics of Perspectives,” Linda E. Chown
• “The Honeysuckle and the Camellia: A Reader-Response Theory of Literary Interpretation,” Samuel B. Garren
• “Doris Lessing and A.S. Byatt: Writing The Golden Notebook in the 1990s,” Pilar Hidalgo
• Calls for Papers
• List of Society Officers

Vol. 24, Nos. 1 & 2, 2004

Special Issue: Coming to Age

Guest Editors: Josna Rege and Ruth Saxton

Contents

• “A Conversation with Doris Lessing: ‘Lucky the culture where the old can talk to the young and the young can talk to the old’,” Doris Lessing and Billy Gray
• Letter from the President, Debrah Raschke
• “Introduction: The Child is Mother of the Woman,” Josna Rege
• “Coming of Age: The Emergence of the Aging Female Protagonist in Literature,” Evelyn Pezzulich
• “Playing in the Shadows: Aging and Female Invisibility in The Summer Before the Dark,” Suzanne Leonard
• “The Summer Before the Dark: The Void of Motherhood,” Amy Lee
• “Changing Bodies, Changing Minds: Constructions of Age via The Diaries of Jane Somers,” Leni Marshall
• “‘None of it adds up’: Economies of Aging in The Diary of a Good Neighbour,” Cynthia Port
• “Patterns of Aging in the Ninth Stage of Life: The Diary of a Good Neighbour,” Christine W. Sizemore
• “Journeys of the Spirit: The Older Woman in Doris Lessing’s Works,” Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis
• “Sex Over Sixty? From Love, Again to The Sweetest Dream,” Ruth Saxton

Vol. 23, No. 2, 2003

Contents

• Letter from the Co-Editors, Phyllis Perrakis and Sandra Singer
• Letter from the President, Debrah Raschke
• “Race, Sex, and Radical Politics in Doris Lessing’s World War II Zambesia/Rhodesia/Zimbabwe,” Claire Sprague
• “Awakening the Solitary Soul: Gendered History in Women’s Fiction and Michael Cunningham’s The Hours,” Sandra Singer
• “Unlocking the Prison of the Past: Childhood Trauma and Narrative in The Memoirs of a Survivor,” Jeanie Warnock
• “Temporal Temptations in Lessing’s Mara and Dann: Arriving at the Present Moment,” Theresa Crater
• “Doris Lessing Revisited: Some Insights on Lessing’s Recent Reception in Spain,” Carmen Garcia Navarro

Vol. 23, No. 1, 2003

Special Issue: Myth and Fairy Tales in Doris Lessing’s Fiction

Guest Editor: Sharon R. Wilson

Contents

• Introduction, Sharon R. Wilson
• “Confronting the Myth: Lessing, Foucault, and Post-War Marxism,” Michael Kramp
• “Myth and Satire: Reading Lessing’s The Golden Notebook through Apuleius’s The Golden Ass,” Terry Reilly
• “Lessing’s The Fifth Child: From Fairy-Tale to Monstrosity,” Debrah Raschke
• “Ben’s Tale: Doris Lessing’s Mythic Anti-Biography,” Christine De Vinne
• “The Cosmic Egg in Lessing’s The Memoirs of a Survivor,” Sharon R. Wilson

Vol. 22, No. 2, 2002

Contents

• “The Politics of Authenticity: A Reading of The Golden Notebook,” Nivedita Majumdar
• “Made From Memories,” Virginia Tiger
• “From The Golden Notebook to The Sweetest Dream,” Linda Weinhouse
• MLA update: “Dear Lessingites,” Phyllis Perrakis
• “R.D. Laing, Doris Lessing and Cold War Madness,” Tony Jackson
• “Lessing Critics: The Earlier Generation,” Paul Schlueter

Vol. 22, No. 1, 2001

Special Issue: Doris Lessing and the Spirit of Postcolonialism

Guest Editors: Anthony Chennells and Debrah Raschke

Contents

• “Postcolonialism: Zimbabwe to Star Wars,” Anthony Chennells and Debrah Raschke
• Letter from the Guest Editors, Anthony Chennells and Debrah Raschke
• “Postcolonialism and Doris Lessing’s Empires,” Anthony Chennells
• “Knowing Native, Going Native: African Laughter, Colonial Epistemology, and Post-Colonial Homecoming,” John McCallister
• “Rhodesia’s Lady of Shalott: Post-/Colonial Representation of a Female Protagonist,” Petra Bittner
• “The ‘Heart of the Kingdom’: Colonial Politics in Lessing’s The Fifth Child,” Debrah Raschke