Adventures of the Spirit : The Older Woman in the Works of Doris, Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers /
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis
- pt. 1. Doris Lessing : Spiraling the waves of detachment
- 1. "Sleepers wake" : the surfacing of buried grief in Doris Lessing's Love, Again, Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow, and Margaret Drabble's The Seven Sisters / Virginia Tiger
- 2. Navigating the spiritual cycle in Memoirs of a survivor and Shikasta / Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis
- 3. Through the "Wall" : crone journeys of enlightenment and creativity in the works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Keri Hulme, and other women writers / Sharon R. Wilson
- pt. 2. Margaret Atwood : doubling back through the labyrinth
- 4. Margaret Atwood's The blind assassin as spiritual adventure / Earl G. Ingersoll
- 5. "And they went to bury her" : Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin and The Robber Bride / Debrah Raschke and Sarah Appleton
- 6. Atwood's space crone : alchemical vision and revision in Morning in the Burned House / Kathryn VanSpanckeren.
- pt. 3. Spiritual adventuring by other contemporary women writers
- 7. "Mirror, mirror on the wall" : Fay Weldon's elder fairy tale / Roberta Rubenstein
- 8. On the road again : Aritha Van Herk's No Fixed Address and Suzette Mayr's The Widows / Sally Chivers
- 9. So much depends upon a ya-ya scrapbook : trauma, figured and reconfigured / Sandra Singer
- 10. Surviving the colonialist legacy of the Klondike Gold Rush : a native woman elder's liberatory and integrative storytelling turn / Susan Berry Brill De Ramírez
- 11. "Soul murder" and rebirth : trauma, narrative, and imagination in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night / Jeanie E. Warnock
- Notes on contributors
- Index.