Revisioning Duras : film, race, sex

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Revisioning Duras : film, race, sex

edited by James S. Williams ; with the assistance of Janet Sayers

Liverpool University Press, 2000

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-227)

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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 of literary and cinematic form, as well as the categories of race and ethnicity, homosexuality and heterosexuality, fantasy and violence, the contributors to this volume 'revision' Duras's work in the widest sense of the term

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Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction: Revisioning Duras James S. Williams Part I: Film 1. An Art of Fugue? The Polyphonic Cinema of Marguerite Duras Wendy Everett 2. Screening the Vampire: Notes on India Song and the Photographic Images of La mer ecrite Gill Houghton 3. Hijacking the Hunter: Duras's 'La nuit du chasseur' Catherine Rogers 4. Excitable Silence: the Violence of Non-violence in Nathalie Granger Owen Heathcote Part II: Race 5. Durasie: Women, Natives, and Other Marie-Paule Ha 6. Imaginary White Female: Myth, Race, and Colour in Duras's L'amant de la Chine du Nord Kate Ince 7. 'Like the French of France': Immigration and Translation in the Later Novels of Marguerite Duras Martin Crowley Part III: Sex 8. Female Homoerotics and Lesbian Textuality in the Work of Marguerite Duras Renate Gunther 9. Life and Death Upon the page: Marguerite Duras and Roland Barthes James Creech 10. Photography and Fetishism in L'amant Alex Hughes Brief Chronology of the Work of Marguerite Duras Bibliography

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