本書在後殖民主義、女性主義、心理學、敘事學等理論關照下，緊扣“個人和集體關繫”的主題，全面繫統地分析了2007年文學諾貝爾獎獲得者英國小說家多麗斯·萊辛關於非洲的六部小說和一部短篇小說集，主要揭示了萊辛筆下的英屬非洲殖民地上的人生異化問題。

本書在後殖民主義、女性主義、心理學、敘事學等理論關照下，緊扣 “個人和集體關繫”的主題，全面繫統地分析了2007年文學諾貝爾獎獲得 者英國小說家多麗斯·萊辛關於非洲的六部小說和一部短篇小說集，主要 揭示了萊辛筆下的英屬非洲殖民地上的人生異化問題：在這個世界裡，一 方面人們習慣於按照種族、民族、性別、政治信仰、年齡等劃分人群和各 種事物，自覺或不自覺地屈從於各種內化了的集體身份；另一方面人們卻 又渴望體現主體性的自我。人們備受外部世界和內部世界不可調和的衝突 的煎熬，感到與他人、社會疏離，最終人性扭曲，過著雙重人格的生活。 本書在後殖民主義、女性主義、心理學、敘事學等理論關照下，緊扣“個人和集體關繫”的主題，全面繫統地分析了2007年文學諾貝爾獎獲得者英國小說家多麗斯·萊辛關於非洲的六部小說和一部短篇小說集，主要揭示了萊辛筆下的英屬非洲殖民地上的人生異化問題：在這個世界裡，一方面人們習慣於按照種族、民族、性別、政治信仰、年齡等劃分人群和各種事物，自覺或不自覺地屈從於各種內化了的集體身份；另一方面人們卻又渴望體現主體性的自我。人們備受外部世界和內部世界不可調和的衝突的煎熬，感到與他人、社會疏離，最終人性扭曲，過著雙重人格的生活。

Introduction Doris Lessing and Her African Fiction
0.1 Reaching Lessing
0.2 The Relationship between the Individual and the Collective
0.3 Understanding Lessing's African Fiction
0.4 Pursuit in Lessing's Africa
0.5 Literary Reviews on Lessing's African Fiction
0.6 The Theme and Brief Introduction to the Organization
Chapter 1 The (s)Self and the (o)Other
1.1 The Theme and the Theoretical Framework
1.2 Selfhood
1.3 The self
1.4 Historical Demarcation of the Self and the Other
1.5 Difference and the Other
1.6 Lacan's Concept of the Other and the other
1.7 The Other in Light of Postcolonialism
1.8 Woman and the Other
Chapter 2 The Natives and the Land as the Other, the Whites as the Bewildered Keepers of the White Mythology
2.1 The Self and the Other in Colonial Africa
2.2 Demonizing the Other, Destroying the self
2.2.1 Moses' Look, Mary's Uneasiness
2.2.2 Crippled Life of Stereotyped White Women
2.3 Increasing Haunting Fear and Homelessness of the Average White People
2.4 White Liberals' Fragmentation
2.5 Nature and "Ecological Imperialism".
2.6 The Revenge of the Bush
2.6.1 House, Settler Women and the Bush
2.6.2 Menacing the House, Imprisoning Settler Women
2.7 The Resistance of the Land
2.7.1 Slatter, an "Automaton" of Colonialism
2.7.2 Disillusioned Romantic Farmers
Chapter3 Minority Groups as the Other, Irreconcilable Conflicts within the Whites
3.1 Minority Groups within the Whites
3.2 Piled-up Grievances between the British and the Afrikaners
3.2.1 Frail Friendship between the Quests and the Van Rensbergs
3.2.2 White Skin, Native Life
3.3 Martha and Jews, Victims of Anti-Semitism
3.3.1 Corrupted Friendship with the Cohen Boys
3.3.2 Distorted Love Affair with Adolph
3.3.3 Martha and Thomas, the Permanent Exile
3.4 The BitterAlienation of "the Sports Club Crowd".
3.4.1 Receiving Typical English Education and Growing up in Africa
3.4.2 Reducing Themselves to the Other in Ethics and Marriage
3.5 The Inevitable Frustration of the Communist Group
Chapter 4 Women, the Hopeless Otherin ColonialAfriea
4.1 kessing and Feminism
4.2 Poor, Lonely and Depressed Housewives on Remote Farms
4.3 Exiled Eves on the Veld: "Normal" Daily Life, Abnormal Emotional Life
4.4 The Other among Housewives on Farm
4.5 Martha, a Townswoman with Distorted Subjectivity
4.5.1 Adolescent Rebellion
4.5.2 Inevitable Alienation Resulting from Romantic Love and Marriage
4.6 Mrs.Van, a Townswoman Leading a Double Life
4.7 No Enunciation Position for Native Women
4.7.1 In the Eyes of White Female Settlers
4.7.2 In the Eyes of White Men
4.7.3 In the Eyes of Native Men
Chapter 5 Narrative Methods
5.1 The Theme and Narrative Methods
5.2 Omniscient Third Person Narration
5.3 Epigraph
5.4 From the Point of View of a Child or an Adolescent
5.5 Dialectical Method
5.5.1 Dialectical Method and the Theme
5.5.2 Marston's Dialectical Roles
5.5.3 Dialectical Method and the White and the Native Relationship
Conclusion
Works Cited

Introduction Doris Lessing and Her African Fiction
0.1 Reaching Lessing
0.2 The Relationship between the Individual and the Collective
0.3 Understanding Lessing's African Fiction
0.4 Pursuit in Lessing's Africa
0.5 Literary Reviews on Lessing's African Fiction
0.6 The Theme and Brief Introduction to the Organization
Chapter 1 The (s)Self and the (o)Other
1.1 The Theme and the Theoretical Framework
1.2 Selfhood
1.3 The self
1.4 Historical Demarcation of the Self and the Other
1.5 Difference and the Other
1.6 Lacan's Concept of the Other and the other
1.7 The Other in Light of Postcolonialism
1.8 Woman and the Other
Chapter 2 The Natives and the Land as the Other, the Whites as the Bewildered Keepers of the White Mythology
2.1 The Self and the Other in Colonial Africa
2.2 Demonizing the Other, Destroying the self
2.2.1 Moses' Look, Mary's Uneasiness
2.2.2 Crippled Life of Stereotyped White Women
2.3 Increasing Haunting Fear and Homelessness of the Average White People
2.4 White Liberals' Fragmentation
2.5 Nature and "Ecological Imperialism".
2.6 The Revenge of the Bush
2.6.1 House, Settler Women and the Bush
2.6.2 Menacing the House, Imprisoning Settler Women
2.7 The Resistance of the Land
2.7.1 Slatter, an "Automaton" of Colonialism
2.7.2 Disillusioned Romantic Farmers
Chapter3 Minority Groups as the Other, Irreconcilable Conflicts within the Whites
3.1 Minority Groups within the Whites
3.2 Piled-up Grievances between the British and the Afrikaners
3.2.1 Frail Friendship between the Quests and the Van Rensbergs
3.2.2 White Skin, Native Life
3.3 Martha and Jews, Victims of Anti-Semitism
3.3.1 Corrupted Friendship with the Cohen Boys
3.3.2 Distorted Love Affair with Adolph
3.3.3 Martha and Thomas, the Permanent Exile
3.4 The BitterAlienation of "the Sports Club Crowd".
3.4.1 Receiving Typical English Education and Growing up in Africa
3.4.2 Reducing Themselves to the Other in Ethics and Marriage
3.5 The Inevitable Frustration of the Communist Group
Chapter 4 Women, the Hopeless Otherin ColonialAfriea
4.1 kessing and Feminism
4.2 Poor, Lonely and Depressed Housewives on Remote Farms
4.3 Exiled Eves on the Veld: "Normal" Daily Life, Abnormal Emotional Life
4.4 The Other among Housewives on Farm
4.5 Martha, a Townswoman with Distorted Subjectivity
4.5.1 Adolescent Rebellion
4.5.2 Inevitable Alienation Resulting from Romantic Love and Marriage
4.6 Mrs.Van, a Townswoman Leading a Double Life
4.7 No Enunciation Position for Native Women
4.7.1 In the Eyes of White Female Settlers
4.7.2 In the Eyes of White Men
4.7.3 In the Eyes of Native Men
Chapter 5 Narrative Methods
5.1 The Theme and Narrative Methods
5.2 Omniscient Third Person Narration
5.3 Epigraph
5.4 From the Point of View of a Child or an Adolescent
5.5 Dialectical Method
5.5.1 Dialectical Method and the Theme
5.5.2 Marston's Dialectical Roles
5.5.3 Dialectical Method and the White and the Native Relationship
Conclusion
Works Cited