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Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook After Fifty This page intentionally left blank Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook After Fifty Editedby AliceRidout,RobertaRubenstein,andSandraSinger dorislessing’sTHEGOLDENNOTEBOOKafterfifty Copyright©AliceRidout,RobertaRubenstein,andSandraSinger,2015. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-48837-4 Allrightsreserved. Firstpublishedin2015by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN® intheUnitedStates—adivisionofSt.Martin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. WherethisbookisdistributedintheUK,EuropeandtherestoftheWorld, thisisbyPalgraveMacmillan,adivisionofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills, Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabove companiesandhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnited States,theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-50406-0 ISBN 978-1-137-47742-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-44742-2 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData DorisLessing’sThegoldennotebookafterfifty/editedbyAliceRidout, RobertaRubenstein,andSandraSinger. pages cm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. 1. Lessing,Doris,1919–2013.Goldennotebook. I. Ridout,Alice, editor. II. Rubenstein,Roberta,1944–editor. III. Singer,Sandra,1957–editor. PR6023.E833G6342015 823(cid:2).914—dc23 2014045793 AcataloguerecordofthebookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. DesignbyIntegraSoftwareServices Firstedition:May2015 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 InMemoriam DorisMayLessing 1919–2013 This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix NotesonContributors xi Introduction 1 AliceRidout,RobertaRubenstein,andSandraSinger Part I PoliticsandGeopolitics 1 “AcrosstheFrontiers”:ReadingAfricainTheGolden Notebook 13 JulieCairnie 2 DorisLessingandtheMadnessofNuclearDeterrence 33 MarkPedretti 3 “ThroughThatGaptheFutureMightPour”:Dreamingthe Post-ColdWarWorldinTheGoldenNotebook 55 CorneliusCollins 4 FeministCommitmenttoLeft-WingRealisminTheGolden Notebook 73 SandraSinger Part II Autobiographical,Aesthetic,andTheoretical Reconsiderations 5 TheGoldenNotebook,DisguisedAutobiography,andRoman àClef 99 RobertaRubenstein viii ● Contents 6 BetweenModernismandPostmodernism:Positioning TheGoldenNotebookintheTwentieth-CenturyCanon 115 TonyaKrouse 7 “SoWhyWriteNovels?”TheGoldenNotebook,Mikhail Bakhtin,andthePoliticsofAuthorship 135 SophiaBarnes 8 RereadingTheGoldenNotebookAfterChickLit 153 AliceRidout Part III “TimingIsAll”:PersonalReminiscences 9 TheGoldenNotebook,Serendipity,andMe 173 PaulSchlueter 10 IRememberDorisLessingandHerIllimitableNovel 181 JonahRaskin 11 TimingIsAll:TheGoldenNotebookThenandNow 195 FlorenceHowe 12 TheGoldenNotebook:FirstImpactandRevisionaryReading 209 GillianBeer Index 213 Acknowledgments The co-editors of this volume especially thank our contributors for their work,theirprofessionalisminrespondingtoourfeedback,andtheirpatience. ThanksalsogotooureditorsatPalgrave,BrigitteShullandRyanJenkins,for their enthusiasm for this project and their helpful guidance along the way; and to Susan Watkins for her perceptive reading of the manuscript and her valuablerecommendations. We are grateful to Clancy Sigal and the Harry Ransom Center, Univer- sity of Texas at Austin, for permission to quote from unpublished materials in the Clancy Sigal Archive and to Palgrave Macmillan for permission to publishRobertaRubenstein’schapter,adaptedfromherbookLiteraryHalf- Lives: Doris Lessing, Clancy Sigal, and Roman à Clef (2014). We gratefully acknowledgepermissionfromGillianBeerandTaylorandFrancistorepub- lish“GillianBeeronDorisLessing’sTheGoldenNotebook,”whichappeared first in Women: A Cultural Review 21.1 (2010): 26–27. We thank Alice Jackson Wright for permission to quote from her poem cited in Florence Howe’schapterinthisvolume. Finally,wewishtoexpressourdeepestgratitudetoPaulGregory,Charles R.Larson,andDanielSingerfortheirlovingsupport.
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