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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 Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 321 pages) : illustrations
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis -- pt. 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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 Ramírez -- 11. "Soul murder" and rebirth : trauma, narrative, and imagination in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night / Jeanie E. Warnock -- Notes on contributors -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Frauenliteratur -- Englisch -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Ältere Frau -- Geschichte -- 1970-2007 -- Aufsatzsammlung. idszbz
Subject Canadian fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Canadian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Canadian fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Women and literature.
Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature.
Older women in literature.
Old age in literature.
American fiction -- 20th century -- Themes, motives
American fiction -- 21st century -- Themes, motives
Canadian fiction -- 20th century -- Themes, motives
Canadian fiction -- 21st century -- Themes, motives
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
American literature -- Women authors
American fiction -- Themes, motives
American fiction
American fiction -- Women authors
Canadian fiction
Canadian fiction -- Women authors
Old age in literature
Older women in literature
Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature
Women and literature
Fictie.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Ouderdom.
Roman -- amerikanischer -- Motiv -- Alter -- Frau.
Roman -- englischer -- Motiv -- Alter -- Frau.
Alter -- Frau -- Motiv -- Roman -- amerikanischer.
Alter -- Frau -- Motiv -- Roman -- englischer.
Frauenliteratur -- Amerikanisch -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Ältere Frau -- Geschichte -- 1970-2007 -- Aufsatzsammlung.
Ältere Frau -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Englisch -- Geschichte -- 1970-2007 -- Aufsatzsammlung.
Ältere Frau -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Amerikanisch -- Geschichte -- 1970-2007 -- Aufsatzsammlung.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Perrakis, Phyllis Sternberg
LC no. 2007021566
ISBN 9780814272114
0814272118