Postmodernism encounters women's writing in doris lessing's the golden notebook

Abstract EN

For the most part, literary critics have associated the advent of women's writing with the maturing of feminism.

in the postmodern era, women writers tried to embark on a modish style that will enable them to disentangle themselves from male literature.

thus, this study paper intends to investigate the presence of postmodernism, mainly intertextuality, in the novel the golden notebook written by Doris Lessing in 1962.

as an outset, the study proceeds with the statement of meaning of women writers and the diverse stages the discipline encompasses.

then, it shifts to put into words intertextuality as a postmodern technique and its miscellaneous devices extant within the golden notebook.

subsequently, it will underline the status quo of the woman in this novel by the British writer Doris Lessing.