LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 9 September 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Marginalised Psyche A Study of Doris Lessing’s The Grass Is Singing

Dhanalakshmi A., M.A., M.Phil.

Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing’s Africa Background

Winner of 2007 Nobel Prize for her varied contribution to literature, Doris Lessing is the most powerful and significant writer from Britain. Born of British parents in Persia, now Iran, her childhood has been shaped by mobility and varied experience. It is her experience in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) that shaped her as diverse writer. She is part and parcel of Africa and one cannot part her from it.

As Sharda Iyer aptly points out, “The Southern Rhodesian landscape, its people – both blacks and white settlers – its modern history and society, in the thick of which she spent most of her first thirty years are the subject-matter of most of her writings. Even after years in London, Africa has not ceased to inspire her. (2)

Doris’ parents’ psychological and financial struggle bruised her childhood. Though deprived of formal education she read extensively, “I read these classics; it was my education”, as she acknowledges later in one of her interviews. Her wide reading mainly consists of classics. In one of her non-fiction works she conveys her experience of reading classics as, “What did I read? The best – the classic of European and American Literature. One of the advantages of not being educated was that I didn’t have to waste time on the second best I could have been educated formally…I simply contracted out of the whole thing and educated myself!”

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Dhanalakshmi A., M.A., M.Phil.
Assistant Professor
Department of English
PSGR Krishnammal College for Women
Peelamedu
Coimbatore 641 004
Tamilnadu, India
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