Doris Lessing's "Landlocked": "A New Kind of Knowledge"
Document Type
Article
Department
English (Scripps)
Publication Date
Spring 1987
Disciplines
English Language and Literature | Fiction
Abstract
Landlocked is the fourth novel in Lessing's Children of Violence, the five-volume epic that takes Martha Quest from her childhood in southern Africa through the end of the world, and that takes Lessing from social realism to science fiction. Martha's quest - and the name "Quest" marks her as the prototypical questing protagonist of contemporary women's fiction - is also Lessing's: both seek "something new" against "the nightmare repetition" which is the burden of history, something oppositional to the culture that has formed them.
Rights Information
© 1987 Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
DOI
10.2307/1208574
Recommended Citation
Greene, Gayle. Doris Lessing's "Landlocked": "A New Kind of Knowledge". Contemporary Literature 28, no. 1 (Spring 1987), pp. 82-103.
