Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook After Fifty

1. Introduction
Alice Ridout, Roberta Rubenstein, Sandra Singer

Part I. Politics and Geopolitics

2. “Across the Frontiers”: Reading Africa in The Golden Notebook
Julie Cairnie

3. Doris Lessing and the Madness of Nuclear Deterrence
Mark Pedretti

4. “Through That Gap the Future Might Pour”: Dreaming the Post-Cold War World in The Golden Notebook
Cornelius Collins

5. Feminist Commitment to Left-Wing Realism in The Golden Notebook
Sandra Singer

Part II. Autobiographical, Aesthetic, and Theoretical Reconsiderations

6. The Golden Notebook, Disguised Autobiography, and Roman à Clef
Roberta Rubenstein

7. Between Modernism and Postmodernism: Positioning The Golden Notebook in the Twentieth-Century Canon
Tonya Krouse

8. “So Why Write Novels?” The Golden Notebook, Mikhail Bakhtin, and the Politics of Authorship
Sophia Barnes

9. Rereading The Golden Notebook After Chick Lit
Alice Ridout

Part III. “Timing Is All”: Personal Reminiscences

10.
The Golden Notebook, Serendipity, and Me
Paul Schlueter

11. I Remember Doris Lessing and Her Illimitable Novel
Jonah Raskin

12. Timing Is All: The Golden Notebook Then and Now
Florence Howe

13. The Golden Notebook: First Impact and Revisionary Reading
Gillian Beer

Avainsanat: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Gender Studies, Literary History