From the Margins of Empire by Louise Yelin - 9780801485053

From the Margins of EmpireChristina Stead, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer\nAuthor(s): Louise Yelin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801485053, 978-0801485053\nSynopsis\nSituated at the intersection of the colonial and the postcolonial, the modern and the postmodern, the novelists Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, and Nadine Gordimer all bear witness to this century's global transformations. From the Margins of Empire looks at how the question of national identity is constructed in their writings. These authorswhite women who were born or grew up in British colonies or former coloniesreflect the subject of national identity in vastly different ways in both their lives and their work. Stead, who resided outside of her native Australia, has an unsettled identity. Lessing, who grew up in southern Rhodesia and migrated to England, is or has become English. Gordimer, who was born in South Africa and remain.