introduction doris lessing and her african fiction
0.1 reaching lessing
0.2 the relationship between the individual and the collective
0.3 understanding lessing's african fiction
0.4 pursuit in lessing's africa
0.5 literary reviews on lessing's african fiction
0.6 the theme and brief introduction to the organization
chapter 1 the (s)self and the (o)other
1.1 the theme and the theoretical framework
1.2 selfhood
1.3 the self
1.4 historical demarcation of the self and the other
1.5 difference and the other
1.6 lacan's concept of the other and the other
1.7 the other in light of postcolonialism
1.8 woman and the other
chapter 2 the natives and the land as the other, the whites as the bewildered keepers of the white mythology
2.1 the self and the other in colonial africa
2.2 demonizing the other, destroying the self
2.2.1 moses' look, mary's uneasiness
2.2.2 crippled life of stereotyped white women
2.3 increasing haunting fear and homelessness of the average white people
2.4 white liberals' fragmentation
2.5 nature and "ecological imperialism".
2.6 the revenge of the bush
2.6.1 house, settler women and the bush
2.6.2 menacing the house, imprisoning settler women
2.7 the resistance of the land
2.7.1 slatter, an "automaton" of colonialism
2.7.2 disillusioned romantic farmers
chapter3 minority groups as the other, irreconcilable conflicts within the whites
3.1 minority groups within the whites
3.2 piled-up grievances between the british and the afrikaners
3.2.1 frail friendship between the quests and the van rensbergs
3.2.2 white skin, native life
3.3 martha and jews, victims of anti-semitism
3.3.1 corrupted friendship with the cohen boys
3.3.2 distorted love affair with adolph
3.3.3 martha and thomas, the permanent exile
3.4 the bitteralienation of "the sports club crowd".
3.4.1 receiving typical english education and growing up in africa
3.4.2 reducing themselves to the other in ethics and marriage
3.5 the inevitable frustration of the communist group
chapter 4 women, the hopeless otherin colonialafriea
4.1 kessing and feminism
4.2 poor, lonely and depressed housewives on remote farms
4.3 exiled eves on the veld: "normal" daily life, abnormal emotional life
4.4 the other among housewives on farm
4.5 martha, a townswoman with distorted subjectivity
4.5.1 adolescent rebellion
4.5.2 inevitable alienation resulting from romantic love and marriage
4.6 mrs.van, a townswoman leading a double life
4.7 no enunciation position for native women
4.7.1 in the eyes of white female settlers
4.7.2 in the eyes of white men
4.7.3 in the eyes of native men
chapter 5 narrative methods
5.1 the theme and narrative methods
5.2 omniscient third person narration
5.3 epigraph
5.4 from the point of view of a child or an adolescent
5.5 dialectical method
5.5.1 dialectical method and the theme
5.5.2 marston's dialectical roles
5.5.3 dialectical method and the white and the native relationship
conclusion
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