「내면의 개인적 목소리」에 나타난 도리스 레싱의 글쓰기 정치학
Doris Lessing’s Politics of Writing in “The Small Personal Voice”
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This paper aims to re-consider Doris Lessing’s politics of writing after some relevant British archives of her letters have been open to Lessingians and scholars. This initiative is correlated to the international conference with the title of ‘Doris Lessing at 100: The Writer’s Quest’ hosted by the University of East Anglia in England in 2019. In particular, Matthew Taunton, Nonia Williams, Henry Stead, Pamela Thurschwell, and James Arnett contribute to activating discussion about Lessing’s letters and her approaches toward Communism and anti-Communism that are likely to affect her writing. According to the letters, it seems that Lessing already had doubts about Communism before moving to England in 1949, but she joined the Community Party of Great Britain in 1952. Nevertheless, this paper suggests that Lessing is not committed to the party activity of CPGB in the way a believer complies with religious doctrines in a trance. Instead, the letters show that from her early political experience, she is a skeptical individual who trains or develops her writing with her eyes open to Communism. Through a training in skepticism, she attempts to investigate “the individual conscience in its relations with the collective” as represented in her essay, “The Small Personal Voice.” For her main theme, she emphasizes that a writer must take responsibility for other human beings by sharing certain values in their works. With this, this paper follows her argument that a novelist should never be involved in any party policy, and that the novelist should talk in a small personal voice while asserting artistic autonomy.
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This paper aims to re-consider Doris Lessing’s politics of writing after some relevant British archives of her letters have been open to Lessingians and scholars. This initiative is correlated to the international conference with the title of ‘Doris Lessing at 100: The Writer’s Quest’ hosted by the University of East Anglia in England in 2019. In particular, Matthew Taunton, Nonia Williams, Henry Stead, Pamela Thurschwell, and James Arnett contribute to activating discussion about Lessing’s letters and her approaches toward Communism and anti-Communism that are likely to affect her writing. According to the letters, it seems that Lessing already had doubts about Communism before moving to England in 1949, but she joined the Community Party of Great Britain in 1952. Nevertheless, this paper suggests that Lessing is not committed to the party activity of CPGB in the way a believer complies with religious doctrines in a trance. Instead, the letters show that from her early political experience, she is a skeptical individual who trains or develops her writing with her eyes open to Communism. Through a training in skepticism, she attempts to investigate “the individual conscience in its relations with the collective” as represented in her essay, “The Small Personal Voice.” For her main theme, she emphasizes that a writer must take responsibility for other human beings by sharing certain values in their works. With this, this paper follows her argument that a novelist should never be involved in any party policy, and that the novelist should talk in a small personal voice while asserting artistic autonomy.
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