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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Literature Review
Chapter 2: Theoretical Framework
Chapter 3: Anti-colonial Consciousness in The Grass Is Singing
3.1 Doris Lessing: a Person of Humanism
3.2 Doris Lessing's Disclosure of the Colonizer's Hypocrisy
3.2.1 The Pretending Marriage of the Tuners
3.2.2 The Unscrupulous Sham of the Slatters
3.2.3 The Hypocrisy of the White Community
3.3 Doris Lessing's Revelation of the Colonizer's Cruelty
3.3.1 The Unbelievable Brutality of Mary
3.3.2 The Incredible Bloodiness of Charlie Slatter
3.3.3 The Merciless Hegemony of the Government
3.4 The Reversion of Colonial Myth in The Grass Is Singing
3.4.1 The Positive Portrait of Moses: a Man of Shining Human Nature
3.4.2 The Successive Failure of Self-opinionated Dick
3.4.3 The Resignation and Reconciliation of Tony
3.4.4 The Innermost Fear of Charlie and Mary
Chapter 4: Colonial Consciousness in The Grass Is Singing
4.1 Doris Lessing: an Intellect of Imperial Ideology
4.2 Doris Lessing's Prejudicial Portrait of the Afrikaners
4.2.1 The Negative Characterization of the Natives
4.2.2 The Disgusting Description of the Living Condition of the African Natives
4.2.3 The Voiceless and Nameless Natives
4.3 Doris Lessing's Acquiescence of Colonialism
4.3.1 The Impending Death of Moses
4.3.2 The Forced Silence of Tony
4.3.3 The Truth-covering Madness of Dick
4.4 The Revival of Colonial Myth in The Grass Is Singing
4.4.1 The Favored Description of the White Colonizers
4.4.2 The Mysterious and Transcendental Depiction of the African Landscape
4.4.3 The Unreliable Narrator
Conclusion
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