Publication Cover
Food, Culture & Society
An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research
Volume 18, 2015 - Issue 4
394
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

“One Half the World was Hungry”

The Evolution of Doris Lessing’s Critique of Global Hunger in, In Pursuit of The English, The Summer Before The Dark, and Alfred and Emily

References

  • Adolph, Andrea. 2009. Food and Femininity in Twentieth-Century British Women’s Fiction. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
  • Avakian, Arlene Voski, and Barbara Haber, eds. 2005. From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies: Critical Perspectives on Women and Food. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
  • Bentley, Amy. 2002. “Islands of Serenity: Gender, Race, and Ordered Meals During World War II.” In Food in the USA: A Reader, edited by Carole M. Counihan. New York, NY: Routledge. 61–93.
  • Chown, Linda E. 1994. “Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing: Intransitive Turn of Mind.” In Woolf and Lessing: Breaking the Mold, edited by Ruth Saxton and Jean Tobin, 123–146. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
  • Collingham, Lizzie. 2012. The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food. New York, NY: Penguin.
  • Douglas, Mary. 1997. “Deciphering a Meal.” In Food and Culture: a Reader, edited by Carole M. Counihan and Penny Van Esterik, 36–51. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Gardiner, Judith Kegan. 1998. Rhys, Stead, Lessing and the Politics of Empathy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • Lessing, Doris. 1965. African Stories. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
  • Lessing, Doris. 1968 [1957]. Going Home. rev ed. New York, NY: Ballantine.
  • Lessing, Doris. 1983 [1973]. The Summer Before the Dark. New York: Random House.
  • Lessing, Doris. 1988. The Fifth Child. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf.
  • Lessing, Doris. 1993 [1960]. In Pursuit of the English. New York: HarperCollins.
  • Lessing, Doris. 1994. Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949. New York: HarperCollins.
  • Lessing, Doris. 1997. Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949–1962. New York: HarperCollins.
  • Lessing, Doris. 2008. Alfred and Emily. New York, NY: HarperCollins.
  • Leonard, Susan. 2004. “Playing in the Shadows: Aging and Female Invisibility in The Summer Before the Dark.” Doris Lessing Studies 24 (1&2): 11–15.
  • Mintz, Sidney W. 1985. Sweetness and Power: the Place of Sugar in Modern History. New York, NY: Penguin.
  • Ridout, Alice. 2010. “‘The View from the Threshold’: Doris Lessing’s Nobel Acceptance Speech.” Doris Lessing Studies 29 (1): 4–8.
  • Sceats, Sarah. 2000a. Food, Consumption and the Body in Contemporary Women’s Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Sceats, Sarah. 2000b. “Flesh and Bones: Eating, Not Eating and the Social Vision of Doris Lessing.” In Rainforests and Sprouting Wastelands: European Essays on Theory and Performance in Contemporary British Fiction, edited by Theme Parks, 139–149. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
  • Sizemore, Christine. 1994. “‘The Outsider-Within’: Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing as Urban Novelists in Mrs. Dalloway and The Four-Gated City.” In Woolf and Lessing: Breaking the Mold, edited by Ruth Saxton and Jean Tobin, 59–72. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
  • Sizemore, Christine. 2008. “In Pursuit of the English: Hybridity and the Local in Doris Lessing’s First Urban Text.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 43 (2): 133–144.
  • Sperlinger, Tom. 2009. “Doris Lessing’s Work of Forgiveness: a Review of Alfred and Emily.” Cambridge Quarterly 38 (1): 66–72.
  • Swanson, Diana L. 2011. “‘The Real World’: Virginia Woolf and Ecofeminism.” In Virginia Woolf and the Natural World: Selected Papers from the Twentieth Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, edited by Kristin Czarnecki and Carrie Rohman, 24–34. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Digital Press.
  • Tiger, Virginia. 1986. “‘Woman of Many Summers’: The Summer Before the Dark.” In Critical Essays on Doris Lessing, edited by Claire Sprague and Virginia Tiger, 86–94. Boston, MA: G. K. Hall.
  • Watkins, Susan. 2010. Doris Lessing. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  • Williams, Raymond. 1970. The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Williams, Raymond. 1973. The Country and the City. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.