Table of Contents

Note on Contributors Introduction: Doris Lessing's Border Crossings, Alice Ridout and Susan Watkins (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK)1. Horrors of the Breast: Cultural Boundaries and the Abject in The Grass is Singing, Edith Frampton (San Diego State University, USA) 2. Inside and Outside Colonial Spaces: Border Crossings in Doris Lessing's African Stories', Pat Louw (University of Zululand, SA) 3. Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook: An Experiment in Critical Fiction, Nick Bentley (University of Keele, UK) 4. Doris Lessing's Fantastic Children, Roberta Rubenstein (American University, US) 5. The ‘Jane Somers' Hoax: Aging, Gender and the Literary Marketplace, Susan Watkins (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) 6. (Not Such) Great Expectations: Unmaking Maternal Ideals in The Fifth Child and We Need to Talk About Kevin, Ruth Robbins (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) 7. Doris Lessing's Under My Skin: The Autobiography of a Cosmopolitan ‘Third Culture Kid', Alice Ridout (University of Leeds, UK) 8. Environmental Fables? The eco-politics of Doris Lessing's ‘Ifrik' novels, Fiona Becket, (University of Leeds, UK) 9. The Porous Border Between Fact and Fiction, Empathy and Identification in Doris Lessing's The Cleft, Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis (University of Ottawa, CA) Afterword, Judith Kegan Gardiner Index