Adventures of the spirit : the older woman in the works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and other contemporary women writers
- Title
- Adventures of the spirit : the older woman in the works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and other contemporary women writers / edited by Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis.
- Published by
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2007], ©2007.
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- Description
- viii, 321 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Canadian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
- Women and literature
- Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature
- Old age in literature
- Older women in literature
- Canadian fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism
- Canadian fiction > 21st century > History and criticism
- Contents
- Pt. I. Doris Lessing : spiraling the waves of detachment -- 1. "Sleepers wake" : the surfacing of buried grief in Doris Lessing's Love, again, Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the widow, and Margaret Drabble's The seven sisters / Virginia Tiger -- 2. Navigating the spiritual cycle in Memoirs of a survivor and Shikasta / Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis -- 3. Through the "wall" : crone journeys of enlightenment and creativity in the works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Keri Hulme, and other women writers / Sharon R. Wilson -- Pt. II. Margaret Atwood : doubling back through the labyrinth -- 4. Margaret Atwood's The blind assassin as spiritual adventure / Earl G. Ingersoll -- 5. "And they went to bury her" : Margaret Atwood's The blind assassin and The robber bride / Debrah Raschke and Sarah Appleton -- 6. Atwood's space crone : alchemical vision and revision in Morning in the burned house / Kathryn VanSpanckeren -- Pt. III. Spiritual adventuring by other contemporary women writers -- 7. "Mirror, mirror on the wall" : Fay Weldon's elder fairy tale / Roberta Rubenstein -- 8. On the road again : Aritha Van Herk's No fixed address and Suzette Mayr's The widows / Sally Chivers -- 9. So much depends upon a Ya-Ya scrapbook : trauma, figured and reconfigured / Sandra Singer -- 10. Surviving the colonialist legacy of the Klondike gold rush : a native woman elder's liberatory and integrative storytelling turn / Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez -- 11. "Soul murder" and rebirth : trauma, narrative, and imagination in Shani Mootoo's Cereus blooms at night / Jeanie E. Warnock.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.