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Revisioning Duras : film, race, sex

This study looks at how far Marguerite 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
eBook, English, 2000
Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2000
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (227 pages) : illustrations
9781846313943, 9781781388266, 1846313945, 1781388261
276175104
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
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010