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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.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

viii, 321 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Canadian fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--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.
Fictie.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Ouderdom.
Roman américain--20e siècle--Histoire et critique.
Roman américain--21e siècle--Histoire et critique.
Roman canadien--20e siècle--Histoire et critique.
Roman canadien--21e siècle--Histoire et critique.
Roman américain--20e siècle--Thèmes, motifs.
Roman américain--21e siècle--Thèmes, motifs.
Roman canadien--20e siècle--Thèmes, motifs.
Roman canadien--21e siècle--Thèmes, motifs.
Femmes et littérature.
Femmes âgées dans la littérature.
Vieillesse dans la littérature.
Écrits de femmes américains--Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes canadiens--Histoire et critique.

Other Authors:

Perrakis, Phyllis Sternberg.

Notes:

"50, 1957-2007 Ohio State", on cover. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Atwood's space crone : alchemical vision and revision in Morning in the Burned House / Introduction / Kathryn VanSpanckeren -- 6. 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 --
11. Index. 7. "Mirror, mirror on the wall" : Fay Weldon's elder fairy tale / Jeanie E. Warnock -- 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.

ISBN:

0814291422 (cd-rom)
9780814291429 (cd-rom)
0814210643 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814210642 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)137305771

LCCN:

2007021566

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)