Martha Quest
ISBN 0451028740 | | |
| Followed by | A Proper Marriage | |
|---|---|---|
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Martha Quest is set in the former
Novelist C. P. Snow, in a review of Martha Quest, in the Sunday Times, described Doris Lessing, as "one of the most powerfully equipped young novelists now writing."[4]
Autobiographical novel
Martha Quest, like much of Lessing's fiction, is autobiographical. In it she draws "upon her childhood memories and her serious engagement with politics and social concerns", which "emerge out of her experiences in Africa", and Martha Quest, like other of Lessing's works set in Africa, that were "published during the fifties and early sixties, decry the dispossession of black Africans by white colonials, and expose the sterility of the white culture in southern Africa". In 1956, Lessing's courageous outspokenness led her to being declared a prohibited alien in both Southern Rhodesia and South Africa.[5]
References
Bibliography
- Mohammad Kaosar Ahmed & Sultana JahanSeeing Herself through Literature: Martha Quest’s Reading Habit in Doris Lessing’s The Children of Violence
- Frederick J. Solinger Nostalgia for the Future: Remembrance of Things to Come in Doris Lessing’s Martha Quest by, from ariel: A Review of International English Literature, Volume 45, Number 3, July 2014, pp. 75–99 (subscription required)
- Jessica Teisch Doris Lessing: Book by Book Profile
- Lamia Tayeb Martha's Odyssey: the Motif of the Journey in Doris Lessing's The Children of Violence
- Gayle Greene Doris Lessing: The Poetics of Change (ISBN 9780472084333)
- Laya Sedhain Mainali Relationship Between Women and Knowledge in Lessing´s The Summer Before the Dark, Martha Quest and A Proper Marriage (bachelor thesis, submitted at Luleå University of Technology