本书在后殖民主义、女性主义、心理学、叙事学等理论关照下，紧扣“个人和集体关系”的主题，全面系统地分析了2007年文学诺贝尔奖获得者英国小说家多丽斯·莱辛关于非洲的六部小说和一部短篇小说集，主要揭示了莱辛笔下的英属非洲殖民地上的人生异化问题。

本书在后殖民主义、女性主义、心理学、叙事学等理论关照下，紧扣“个人和集体关系”的主题，全面系统地分析了2007年文学诺贝尔奖获得者英国小说家多丽斯·莱辛关于非洲的六部小说和一部短篇小说集，主要揭示了莱辛笔下的英属非洲殖民地上的人生异化问题：在这个世界里，一方面人们习惯于按照种族、民族、性别、政治信仰、年龄等划分人群和各种事物，自觉或不自觉地屈从于各种内化了的集体身份；另一方面人们却又渴望体现主体性的自我。人们备受外部世界和内部世界不可调和的冲突的煎熬，感到与他人、社会疏离，最终人性扭曲，过着双重人格的生活。

Introduction Doris Lessing and Her African Fiction

 0.1 Reaching Lessing

 0.2 The Relationship between the Individual and the Collective

 0.3 Understanding Lessing's African Fiction

 0.4 Pursuit in Lessing's Africa

 0.5 Literary Reviews on Lessing's African Fiction

 0.6 The Theme and Brief Introduction to the Organization

Chapter 1 The (s)Self and the (o)Other

 1.1 The Theme and the Theoretical Framework

 1.2 Selfhood

 1.3 The self

 1.4 Historical Demarcation of the Self and the Other

 1.5 Difference and the Other

 1.6 Lacan's Concept of the Other and the other

 1.7 The Other in Light of Postcolonialism

 1.8 Woman and the Other

Chapter 2 The Natives and the Land as the Other, the Whites as the Bewildered Keepers of the White Mythology

 2.1 The Self and the Other in Colonial Africa

 2.2 Demonizing the Other, Destroying the self

2.2.1 Moses' Look, Mary's Uneasiness

2.2.2 Crippled Life of Stereotyped White Women

 2.3 Increasing Haunting Fear and Homelessness of the Average White People

 2.4 White Liberals' Fragmentation

 2.5 Nature and "Ecological Imperialism".

 2.6 The Revenge of the Bush

2.6.1 House, Settler Women and the Bush

2.6.2 Menacing the House, Imprisoning Settler Women

 2.7 The Resistance of the Land

2.7.1 Slatter, an "Automaton" of Colonialism

2.7.2 Disillusioned Romantic Farmers

Chapter3 Minority Groups as the Other, Irreconcilable Conflicts within the Whites

 3.1 Minority Groups within the Whites

 3.2 Piled-up Grievances between the British and the Afrikaners

3.2.1 Frail Friendship between the Quests and the Van Rensbergs

3.2.2 White Skin, Native Life

 3.3 Martha and Jews, Victims of Anti-Semitism

3.3.1 Corrupted Friendship with the Cohen Boys

3.3.2 Distorted Love Affair with Adolph

3.3.3 Martha and Thomas, the Permanent Exile

 3.4 The BitterAlienation of "the Sports Club Crowd".

3.4.1 Receiving Typical English Education and Growing up in Africa

3.4.2 Reducing Themselves to the Other in Ethics and Marriage

 3.5 The Inevitable Frustration of the Communist Group

Chapter 4 Women, the Hopeless Otherin ColonialAfriea

 4.1 kessing and Feminism

 4.2 Poor, Lonely and Depressed Housewives on Remote Farms

 4.3 Exiled Eves on the Veld: "Normal" Daily Life, Abnormal Emotional Life

 4.4 The Other among Housewives on Farm

 4.5 Martha, a Townswoman with Distorted Subjectivity

4.5.1 Adolescent Rebellion

4.5.2 Inevitable Alienation Resulting from Romantic Love and Marriage

 4.6 Mrs.Van, a Townswoman Leading a Double Life

 4.7 No Enunciation Position for Native Women

4.7.1 In the Eyes of White Female Settlers

4.7.2 In the Eyes of White Men

4.7.3 In the Eyes of Native Men

Chapter 5 Narrative Methods

 5.1 The Theme and Narrative Methods

 5.2 Omniscient Third Person Narration

 5.3 Epigraph

 5.4 From the Point of View of a Child or an Adolescent

 5.5 Dialectical Method

5.5.1 Dialectical Method and the Theme

5.5.2 Marston's Dialectical Roles

5.5.3 Dialectical Method and the White and the Native Relationship

Conclusion

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