Identity in Doris Lessing’s Space Fiction By David Waterman

Acknowledgements

Special thanks are due to the many colleagues who have invited me to share my work in progress at various conferences in Europe, North America, and Asia, including: “Ecritures de Femmes et Autobiographie,” Equipe de Recherche Créativité et Imaginaire des Femmes, Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, France; “l’Excentrique,” Société d’Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier III, France; “Annual Scholar’s Day,” State University of New York at Cortland, USA; “Space and Identity: Twentieth-Century British Literature—Trauma and Dissonance,” College English Association, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; “Communities: an International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Theoretical and Practical, Cultural and Social Aspects of the Communal,” Trinity and All Saint’s College of the University of Leeds, UK; “European Culture in a Changing World: Between Nationalism and Globalism,” International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Aberystwyth, Wales; “International Conference on the Study and Research of European Literatures,” College of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Peking University, Haidian, Beijing, People’s Republic of China;