Doris Lessing's The Grass is Singing A Critical Study

by Tapan Ghosh and Abhisek Bhattachary

The Grass is Singing, Doris Lessing's debut novel published in1950, is regarded as a landmark of twentieth century literature inEnglish. The book was overwhelmingly well received both by criticsand the general reading public and it went through seven reprintswithin five months. A masterpiece of social realism, the novel isset in colonized Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and concerned with theissue of colour bar and its disastrous effect on the marginalwhites and the native Africans. The present volume, divided intothree sections, examines this novel from critical perspectives. Itbegins with a brief overview of Doris Lessing's life and works anda general introduction to The Grass is Singing. The second sectionoffers exhaustive commentary on the text and also examines themajor characters in the novel besides analyzing some importantthematic and structural issues. The third section includes fourarticles of critical interest. In sum, the present volume is auseful addition to the existing corpus of Lessing criticism ingeneral and to the evaluation of her outstanding first novel inparticular.

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