Individual Resistance: Body Narrative in The Grass Is Singing
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DOI: 10.23977/ICEMESS2024.034
Corresponding Author
Lin Luo
ABSTRACT
Body writing is one of the core themes of Doris Lessing’s famous work The Grass Is Singing. The novel fully demonstrates the connection between bodies, racism, and colonial power by focusing on the bodies of three main characters, exposing the decline of colonial power and responding to the independence movements of contemporary African colonies. This paper delves into the body changes of protagonists with different skin colors to explore their individual resistance consciousness and related power relation changes, thus discussing the significance of body writing as a legitimized narrative technique to interpret social reality.
KEYWORDS
Doris Lessing; body writing; resistance consciousness; power
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