What's Left of Feelings? The Affective Labor of Politics in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook.
In The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing's fragmented narrative, invocations of Sisyphean labor, and characterization of political work demonstrate that the most effective route to progressive political change is through embodying an optimism that may seem naïve, but whose efficacy is evident in the pr...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 77 - 96 |
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