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Journal Article
Memory, Truth, and Fiction in Doris Lessing's Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
2024
Overview
A closer analysis of her autobiography reveals how these three elements, memory, truth, and fiction, are complexly knotted into a pattern in her writing. [...]despite the limits of the memory as caused by childhood amnesia, Lessing strives for alternative methods to revive her experience of early childhood. [...]after several attempts to refigure events of her early childhood and her parents' lives in Under My Skin and The Memoirs of a Survivor, in her final book, Alfred & Emily, Lessing again comes back to her childhood in Southern Rhodesia and her troubled relationship with her parents. Furthermore, an attempt to appraise her writing solely within an aesthetic framework is quite misleading. [...]beyond the aesthetic function Lessing's writing explores several intricacies within the area of self and writing (Vappala 179).
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Doris Lessing Society
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