African and Islamic: Doris Lessing’s notion of writerly commitment in “The Small Personal Voice”

Hasan, Md. Mahmudul (2023) African and Islamic: Doris Lessing’s notion of writerly commitment in “The Small Personal Voice”. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. pp. 1-12. ISSN 0011-1619 E-ISSN 1939-9138

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Abstract

Doris Lessing celebrates the realist, committed novel and laments its absence in much of modern literature. Her theory of literature emanates from an understanding of good and evil and has an instructive function. Accordingly, she admires nineteenth-century realist novelists and commends their efforts to document and question unjust social practices. Based on Lessing’s literary credo titled “The Small Personal Voice,” in this paper I shall explicate her notion of literary commitment and regard it as a counter to literary aestheticism, relating her idea of committedness to her African past and evaluating her theory of art articulated in the essay from the Islamic viewpoint.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	postcolonial; feminist themes; feminist literary theory; Asia
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PE English P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of English Language & Literature
Depositing User:	Dr. Md. Mahmudul Hasan
Date Deposited:	17 Apr 2023 15:12
Last Modified:	17 Apr 2023 15:12
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/104480

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