Revisioning Duras : film, race, sex
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
Criticism, interpretation, etc
227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780853235460, 9780853235569, 0853235465, 0853235562
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AcknowledgementsContributorsIntroduction: Revisioning DurasJames S. WilliamsPart I: Film1. An Art of Fugue? The Polyphonic Cinema of Marguerite DurasWendy Everett2. Screening the Vampire: Notes on India Song and the Photographic Images of La mer écriteGill Houghton3. Hijacking the Hunter: Duras’s ‘La nuit du chasseur’Catherine Rogers4. Excitable Silence: the Violence of Non-violence in Nathalie GrangerOwen HeathcotePart II: Race5. Durasie: Women, Natives, and OtherMarie-Paule Ha6. Imaginary White Female: Myth, Race, and Colour in Duras’s L’amant de la Chine du NordKate Ince7. ‘Like the French of France’: Immigration and Translation in the Later Novels of Marguerite DurasMartin CrowleyPart III: Sex8. Female Homoerotics and Lesbian Textuality in the Work of Marguerite DurasRenate Günther9. Life and Death Upon the page: Marguerite Duras and Roland BarthesJames Creech10. Photography and Fetishism in L’amantAlex HughesBrief Chronology of the Work of Marguerite DurasBibliography