Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook After Fifty

Introduction; Alice Ridout, Roberta Rubenstein, and Sandra Singer PART I: POLITICS AND GEOPOLITICS 1. "Across the Frontiers": Reading Africa in The Golden Notebook ; Julie Cairnie 2. Doris Lessing and the Madness of Nuclear Deterrence; Mark Pedretti 3. "Through That Gap the Future Might Pour": Dreaming the Post-Cold War World in The Golden Notebook ; Cornelius Collins 4. Feminist Commitment to Left-Wing Realism in The Golden Notebook ; Sandra Singer PART II: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL, AESTHETIC, AND THEORETICAL RECONSIDERATIONS 5. The Golden Notebook , Disguised Autobiography, and roman à clef ; Roberta Rubenstein 6. Between Modernism and Postmodernism: Positioning The Golden Notebook in the Twentieth-Century Canon; Tonya Krouse 7. "So Why Write Novels?" The Golden Notebook , Mikhail Bakhtin, and the Politics of Authorship; Sophia Helen Barnes 8. Re-reading The Golden Notebook After Chick Lit; Alice Ridout PART III: "TIMING IS ALL": PERSONAL REMINISCENCES 9. The Golden Notebook , Serendipity, and Me; Paul Schlueter 10. I Remember Doris Lessing and her Illimitable Novel; Jonah Raskin 11. Timing is All: The Golden Notebook Then and Now; Florence Howe 12. The Golden Notebook : First Impact and Revisionary Reading; Gillian Beer