Abstract

In response to Susan Watkins's call for a need to re-evaluate and re-examine Doris Lessing's work in the light of recent criticism, this essay explores the spectral traces of traumatized childhoods in The Sweetest Dream (2001), following the theoretical framework of haunting and spectrality. Lessing's novel addresses the coping strategies used by wounded characters in the face of traumatic events, be they childhood memories or war atrocities.

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