What's the Time, Anna Wulf? Crisis, Temporality and Feminist Untimeliness in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook

Waters, Melanie (2023) What's the Time, Anna Wulf? Crisis, Temporality and Feminist Untimeliness in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 69 (4). pp. 593-613. ISSN 0026-7724

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.a915958

Abstract

When Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook was first published in 1962, it was instantly lauded as a timely novel. In this essay, I investigate what is timely about The Golden Notebook through an analysis of the novel's complex temporality. Taking the book's phenomenal critical legacy as a signal indication that its timeliness is yet to be exhausted, I explore how Lessing's provocative figurations of time illuminate the ideological and representational structures that confine Lessing and her characters. In doing so, I also gesture, speculatively, toward how these structures might be subverted in the future.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: L900 Others in Social studies
Q100 Linguistics
W800 Imaginative Writing
Department: Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Humanities
Depositing User: John Coen
Date Deposited: 29 Apr 2022 13:07
Last Modified: 16 Jan 2024 08:15
URI: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/49002

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