"From the margins of empire : Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer" : Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer

Situated at the intersection of the colonial and the post-colonial, the modern and the postmodern, the novelists Christina Stead, Doris Lessing and Nadine Gordimer all bear witness to the 20th century's global transformations. This text explores their constructions of national identity.