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Between East and West: Sufism in the Novels of Doris Lessing
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Between East and West: Sufism in the Novels of Doris Lessing Hardcover - 1997

by Muge Galin


From the publisher

East and West applies Sufi thought to some of Doris Lessing's novels and studies the manifestations of Sufi influence on Lessing. Various Sufi-like characters and their unconventional lifestyles are evaluated and explicated for Western readers unfamiliar with Sufism. This book also evaluates the role of spirituality in Lessing's work and considers the implications of taking Lessing's Sufism seriously when reading her works or when doing Lessing criticism. It also impresses upon the reader the degree to which Lessing is seriously offering her space-fiction utopias as plausible and even necessary alternatives to our present Western ways of life.

Details

  • Title Between East and West: Sufism in the Novels of Doris Lessing
  • Author Muge Galin
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press
  • Date 1997-06
  • ISBN 9780791433836 / 0791433838
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Islamic
  • Library of Congress subjects East and West in literature, Sufism in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96042446
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.914

About the author

Muge Galin is Lecturer at The Ohio State University. She is coeditor of The Emergence of an Ottoman Woman Author: Fatma Aliye Hanim and Understanding Women: The Challenge of Cross-Cultural Perspectives, and is author of Intermediate Turkish; Advanced Turkish; and Turkish Sampler: Writings for All Readers.