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.
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TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2007Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (321 pages): illustrationsContent type: - text
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- Ältere Frau -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Amerikanisch -- Geschichte -- 1970-2007 -- Aufsatzsammlung
- Ältere Frau -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Englisch -- Geschichte -- 1970-2007 -- Aufsatzsammlung
- Frauenliteratur -- Amerikanisch -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Ältere Frau -- Geschichte -- 1970-2007 -- Aufsatzsammlung
- Alter -- Frau -- Motiv -- Roman -- englischer
- Alter -- Frau -- Motiv -- Roman -- amerikanischer
- Roman -- englischer -- Motiv -- Alter -- Frau
- Roman -- amerikanischer -- Motiv -- Alter -- Frau
- Ouderdom
- Vrouwelijke auteurs
- Fictie
- Women and literature
- Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature
- Older women in literature
- Old age in literature
- Canadian fiction -- Women authors
- Canadian fiction
- American fiction -- Women authors
- American fiction
- Conscience de soi dans la litterature
- Écrits de femmes canadiens -- Histoire et critique
- Écrits de femmes americains -- Histoire et critique
- Vieillesse dans la litterature
- Femmes âgees dans la litterature
- Femmes et litterature
- Roman canadien -- 21e siecle -- Themes, motifs
- Roman canadien -- 20e siecle -- Themes, motifs
- Roman americain -- 21e siecle -- Themes, motifs
- Roman americain -- 20e siecle -- Themes, motifs
- Roman canadien -- 21e siecle -- Histoire et critique
- Roman canadien -- 20e siecle -- Histoire et critique
- Roman americain -- 21e siecle -- Histoire et critique
- Roman americain -- 20e siecle -- Histoire et critique
- American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Canadian fiction -- 21st century -- Themes, motives
- Canadian fiction -- 20th century -- Themes, motives
- American fiction -- 21st century -- Themes, motives
- American fiction -- 20th century -- Themes, motives
- Old age in literature
- Older women in literature
- Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature
- Women and literature
- American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Canadian fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
- Canadian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Canadian fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Frauenliteratur -- Englisch -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Ältere Frau -- Geschichte -- 1970-2007 -- Aufsatzsammlung
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.
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