How to Cite:
Dr. Priya. A, "Colonial Voices and Female Agency in Select Novels of Doris Lessing" International Journal of Humanities Science Innovations and Management Studies, Vol. 2, No. 5, pp. 29-31, 2025.

Abstract:
Doris Lessing is known for being an 'outsider-insider' with regard to her British Heritage and colonial upbringing in Southern Rhodesia. The complexities of racial hierarchies and gendered subjugation in racial marriage are what she articulates in her works. In Mary Turner and Martha Quest, these contradictions of colonial binarism are exhibited through the internalized and constructed ideological racialism. Lessing is among the authors of works that confront the white settler epistemology. These fictions are soaked with the racialized theory of ethnicity, which is directly related to social theory, lived experiences, and power. The goal of this article is to illustrate the integrating aspects of literature, particularly in relation to decolonization and race, in Lessing’s works.

Keywords: Doris Lessing, Critical Race Theory, Postcolonial Feminism, Settler Colonialism, The Grass is Singing, Race and Gender, African Literature, Whiteness Studies, Colonial Trauma, Resistance Literature.

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