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Par la suite, ses livres ont été interdits en Afrique du Sud et elle a été empêchée d'entrer en Rhodésie du Sud en 1956, une interdiction qui durerait près de trente ans.
AUTHOR OF THE GRASS IS SINGING PLUS
Même si elle a passé vingt-quatre ans de sa vie en Rhodésie du Sud (maintenant Zimbabwe) en tant que fille de colons qui se sont rendus dans cette colonie dans le cadre du régime de l'Empire britannique, elle a été l'une des voix les plus féroces à dénoncer l'injustice et le système d'apartheid, et a essayé à travers ses écrits de résister à une époque entachée de colonialisme. Écrivaine prolifique, anticonformiste, rebelle et provocatrice, Doris Lessing est considérée par la critique comme ayant été à l'avant-garde du féminisme, du communisme, de l'anticolonialisme et de la lutte contre l'apartheid.
This article deals therefore with the aspects of censorship in Doris Lessing’s first novel The Grass Is Singing and the way the writer was censored after writing it.Įssayiste et romancière révolutionnaire et sans compromis intellectuel, décédée en 2013 à l'âge de 94 ans, Doris Lessing était l'une des femmes écrivains les plus influentes de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. Subsequently, her books were banned in South Africa and she was barred from entering Southern Rhodesia in 1956, a ban that would last for almost thirty years.
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Even though she spent twenty-four years of her life in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) as the daughter of settlers who travelled to that colony through the British Empire scheme, she was one of the fiercest voices railing against injustice and, the apartheid system, and tried through her writings to resist an era tainted by colonialism.
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A prolific writer of more than fifty novels, a pioneering individualist and a non-conformist thinker, she always refused allegiance to formal ideologies and vehemently objected to dogmas and rigid institutions. Mary’s attempt in achieving her own sense of self in this process of individuation fails and dooms her to death because of the same sexual and ideological factors, rooted in her family and culture.A ground-breaking and intellectually uncompromising essayist and novelist, Doris Lessing, who died in 2013 at age 94, was one of the most influential women writers of the second half of the twentieth century. In this article, I will discuss how the cross-hatched intersection of gender, class, and race through their relationship to each other operates in Mary’s failure of her female individuation. Lessing, by depicting her protagonist in a particular British colonial setting, artistically reveals that her identity is negotiated and constructed by the social and behavioral expectations, developed through her racial role as a white woman colonizer and her gender role as a woman colonized in a patriarchal narrative of the same setting. This novel is Mary’s failure of individuation in the confrontation of her psychological and cultural parts, shaped by colonial experience. This article presents and interprets Doris Lessing’s first novel, The Grass is Singing (1950), as both a personal and psychological portrayal of its female protagonist, Mary Turner, from her childhood to death, and as a political exposure of the futility and fragility of the patriarchal and colonial society.