Session Details

Saturday, 30 December

744. Crossing Borders: Transnational and Postcolonial Lessing

1:45–3:00 p.m., 408, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Doris Lessing Society

Presiding: Paul Schlueter, Easton, PA; Anne M. Serafin, Newtonville, MA

1. “White Farm Children and the Borders of White Supremacy: Doris Lessing, Alexandra Fuller, and Ian Holding,” Julie Cairnie, Univ. of Guelph

2. “Mimesis and the Formation of a New Social Identity in Doris Lessing’s The Memoirs of a Survivor,” Emily Morgan, Univ. of Northern Colorado

3. “Mythic Quests for Postcolonial Identity in The Story of General Dann and Mara’s Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog, and Other Texts,” Sharon R. Wilson, Univ. of Northern Colorado

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