Ann Snitow is Associate Professor of Literature and Gender Studies at Lang College, The New School, in New York City. A longtime activist, Snitow has cofounded The Network of East-West Women, No More Nice Girls, and New York Radical Feminists. She has written for
Doubt’s Visionary: Doris Lessing
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Published:August 2015
This piece surveys Lessing’s career, including descriptions of how this writer, moving through very different genres, including both traditional realism and science fiction, finds ways to warn and chastise her readers for dozing off while driving right off the cliff of political mayhem and ecological disaster. The books discussed in some depth are: Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire; The Good Terrorist; Mara and Dann: An Adventure; and The Story of General Dann and Mara’s Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog. Lessing is a Jeremiah, announcing oncoming destruction in these often strange but always compelling novels.
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