Revisioning Duras [electronic resource] : Film, Race, Sex
Williams, James S.
Williams, James SContributor
Sayers, JanetContributor
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,
2000.
The extraordinary range, complexity and power of Marguerite Duras - novelist, dramatist, film-maker, essayist - has been justly recognised. Yet in the years following her death in 1996, there has been a increasing tendency to consecrate her work, particularly by those critics who approach it primarily in biographical terms. The British and American specialists featured in this interdisciplinary collection aim to resurrect the Duras corpus in all its forms by submitting it theoretically to three main areas of enquiry. By establishing how far Duras's work questions and redefines the parameters o
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Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Revisioning Duras; Part I: Film; 1: An Art of Fugue? The Polyphonic Cinema of Marguerite Duras; 2: Screening the Vampire: Notes on India Song and the Photographic Images of La mer écrite; 3: Hijacking the Hunter: Duras's 'La nuit du chasseur'; 4: Excitable Silence: the Violence of Non-violence in Nathalie Granger; Part II: Race; 5: Durasie: Women, Natives, and Other; 6: Imaginary White Female: Myth, Race, and Colour in Duras's L'amant de la Chine du Nord
7: 'Like the French of France': Immigration and Translation in the Later Novels of Marguerite DurasPart III: Sex; 8: Female Homoerotics and Lesbian Textuality in the Work of Marguerite Duras; 9: Life and Death Upon the Page: Marguerite Duras and Roland Barthes; 10: Photography and Fetishism in L'amant; Brief Chronology of the Work of Marguerite Duras; Select Bibliography
The extraordinary range, complexity and power of Marguerite Duras - novelist, dramatist, film-maker, essayist - has been justly recognised. Yet in the years following her death in 1996, there has been a increasing tendency to consecrate her work, particularly by those critics who approach it primarily in biographical terms. The British and American specialists featured in this interdisciplinary collection aim to resurrect the Duras corpus in all its forms by submitting it theoretically to three main areas of enquiry. By establishing how far Duras's work questions and redefines the parameters o
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references.
Duras, Marguerite
Sex in literature
Race awareness in literature
Romance Literatures
Languages & Literatures
French Literature