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Article: Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962.
- Article from:
- The Women's Review of Books
- Article date:
- November 1, 1997
- Author:
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Two years ago I reviewed the first volume of Doris Lessing's antobiography, Under My Skin, for The Women's Review of Books. Although I questioned whether it had anything to tell us we didn't already know from previously published memoirs, including Going Home, In Pursuit of the English and African Laughter, or patently autobiographical novels like the Martha Quest series and The Golden Notebook, I was intrigued by Under My Skin because it evinced a theoretical disposition I didn't know Lessing possessed.
I began that review with a quotation from a scholarly article titled "Postmodernism and the Autobiographical Subject: Reconstructing the 'Other'" because, although ...