Female Identity Crisis in Doris Lessing’s : the Golden Notebook

Abstract

This dissertation studies female identity crisis in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook by relying on feminist as well as postmodern ideas as theoretical framework. It investigates the refraction or the division surfacing within the identity of female protagonist amid the plethora of experiences she undergoes but looks for alternative choices out to liberation and self-definition. In this sense, the research foregrounds the impediments that impacted on the identity formation of the protagonist including, the complications of being raised in Southern Africa and being at the same time a woman, a lover, a mother, an artist as well as a political activist