Identity in Doris Lessing’s Space Fiction
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Identity in Doris Lessing’s Space Fiction By David Waterman

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Contents

Foreword

ix

Preface

xiii

Acknowledgements

xv

Introduction

xvii

Chapter 1: Androgynous Identity in a Fragmented Society: Briefing for a Descent into Hell

1

Chapter 2: Helpless Ignorance, Helpless Awareness?: Social Identit(ies) in The Memoirs of a Survivor

17

Chapter 3: Collective Identity on an Interplanetary Scale: Shikasta

35

Chapter 4: The Space of Belonging: Alienation in The Marriages between Zones Three, Four and Five

53

Chapter 5: Who Am I When the Other Disappears?: Identity and Progress in The Sirian Experiments

71

Chapter 6: Who we Become when Disaster Strikes: The Making of the Representative for Planet 8.

91