Revisioning Duras: Film, Race, SexJames S. Williams, Janet Sayers The extraordinary range, complexity and power of Marguerite Duras – novelist, dramatist, film-maker, essayist – has been justly recognized. Yet in the years following her death in 1996, there has been an 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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... voice . The setting of the film , which we have previously created in our imagination almost entirely through the voices and music we hear , is now imagined afresh as we read the map . ( We could establish a direct link here with the ...
... voice . The setting of the film , which we have previously created in our imagination almost entirely through the voices and music we hear , is now imagined afresh as we read the map . ( We could establish a direct link here with the ...
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... Voices ' conveys something elusive , of an unknown or buried origin , and which exceeds concious control.23 The use of voices instead of visual representations of women effectively destroys the voyeuristic apparatus inherent in the ...
... Voices ' conveys something elusive , of an unknown or buried origin , and which exceeds concious control.23 The use of voices instead of visual representations of women effectively destroys the voyeuristic apparatus inherent in the ...
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... voices were not women , on the other hand , in response to Xavière Gauthier's question as to why she chose female rather than male voices , she replied that the latter would play a role and that they would not be immersed in the same ...
... voices were not women , on the other hand , in response to Xavière Gauthier's question as to why she chose female rather than male voices , she replied that the latter would play a role and that they would not be immersed in the same ...
Contents
An Art of Fugue? The Polyphonic Cinema of Marguerite Duras | 21 |
Notes on India Song and the | 37 |
Durass La nuit du chasseur | 61 |
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Alissa Anne-Marie Stretter autobiographical Barbara Bray become C'est Cahiers du Cinéma Cet amour-là characters child Chine du Nord Chinese lover colonial colour context critical dark death Détruire dit-elle difference douleur Duras's Duras's films Duras's texts Duras's writing Durassian écrite Elisabeth Emily Emily L Ernesto Erotics of Passage example father femme du Gange fiction France French fugue Gallimard gender Hélène heterosexual homosexuality identity immigrant India Song Indochina interview Julia Kristeva Kristeva L'amant L'Evénement language Le camion Le navire Night Les mains négatives lesbian linguistic literary London maladie Marguerite Duras Mascolo metonymy Michelle Porte Minuit mirror mort mother narrative narrator narrator's Nathalie Granger native night noir novel oeuvre Paris photographic pluie d'été political Preacher qu'elle racial ravissement de Lol relation relationship representation Roland Barthes role scene sexual space Stein structure textual trans translation vampire vice-consul violence voices woman women Yann Andréa yeux verts York