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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<br/><br/> Acknowledgments --  Introduction /  Doris Lessing : Spiraling the waves of detachment --  "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 /  Navigating the spiritual cycle in Memoirs of a survivor and Shikasta /  Through the "Wall" : crone journeys of enlightenment and creativity in the works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Keri Hulme, and other women writers /  Margaret Atwood : doubling back through the labyrinth --  Margaret Atwood's The blind assassin as spiritual adventure /  "And they went to bury her" : Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin and The Robber Bride /  Atwood's space crone : alchemical vision and revision in Morning in the Burned House /  Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis --  Virginia Tiger --  Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis --  Sharon R. Wilson --  Earl G. Ingersoll --  Debrah Raschke  Sarah Appleton --  Kathryn VanSpanckeren.  pt. 1.  1.  2.  3.  pt. 2.  4.  5.  and  6.  Spiritual adventuring by other contemporary women writers --  "Mirror, mirror on the wall" : Fay Weldon's elder fairy tale /  On the road again : Aritha Van Herk's No Fixed Address and Suzette Mayr's The Widows /  So much depends upon a ya-ya scrapbook : trauma, figured and reconfigured /  Surviving the colonialist legacy of the Klondike Gold Rush : a native woman elder's liberatory and integrative storytelling turn /  "Soul murder" and rebirth : trauma, narrative, and imagination in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night /  Notes on contributors --  Index.  Roberta Rubenstein --  Sally Chivers --  Sandra Singer --  Susan Berry Brill De Ramírez --  Jeanie E. Warnock --  pt. 3.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Frauenliteratur--Englisch--Motiv (Literatur)--Ältere Frau--Geschichte--1970-2007--Aufsatzsammlung.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ältere Frau--Motiv (Literatur)--Amerikanisch--Geschichte--1970-2007--Aufsatzsammlung.<br/>Ältere Frau--Motiv (Literatur)--Englisch--Geschichte--1970-2007--Aufsatzsammlung.<br/>Frauenliteratur--Amerikanisch--Motiv (Literatur)--Ältere Frau--Geschichte--1970-2007--Aufsatzsammlung.<br/>Alter--Frau--Motiv--Roman--englischer.<br/>Alter--Frau--Motiv--Roman--amerikanischer.<br/>Roman--Motiv--Alter--Frau.--englischer<br/>Roman--Motiv--Alter--Frau.--amerikanischer<br/>Ouderdom.<br/>Vrouwelijke auteurs.<br/>Fictie.<br/>Women and literature.<br/>Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature.<br/>Older women in literature.<br/>Old age in literature.<br/>Canadian fiction--Women authors.<br/>Canadian fiction.<br/>American fiction--Women authors.<br/>American fiction.<br/>Conscience de soi dans la litterature.<br/>Écrits de femmes canadiens--Histoire et critique.<br/>Écrits de femmes americains--Histoire et critique.<br/>Vieillesse dans la litterature.<br/>Femmes âgees dans la litterature.<br/>Femmes et litterature.<br/>Roman canadien--Themes, motifs.--21e siecle<br/>Roman canadien--Themes, motifs.--20e siecle<br/>Roman americain--Themes, motifs.--21e siecle<br/>Roman americain--Themes, motifs.--20e siecle<br/>Roman canadien--Histoire et critique.--21e siecle<br/>Roman canadien--Histoire et critique.--20e siecle<br/>Roman americain--Histoire et critique.--21e siecle<br/>Roman americain--Histoire et critique.--20e siecle<br/>American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.<br/>Canadian fiction--Themes, motives.--21st century<br/>Canadian fiction--Themes, motives.--20th century<br/>American fiction--Themes, motives.--21st century<br/>American fiction--Themes, motives.--20th century<br/>Old age in literature.<br/>Older women in literature.<br/>Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature.<br/>Women and literature.<br/>American fiction--History and criticism.--21st century<br/>American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>Canadian fiction--History and criticism.--21st century<br/>Canadian fiction--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.<br/>Canadian fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
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