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Critical Subjectivities: Identity and Narrative in the Work of Colette and Marguerite Duras
Contributor(s): Collier, Peter (Editor), Best, Victoria (Author)

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 ISBN: 3906763897     ISBN-13: 9783906763897
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
OUR PRICE: $91.30  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2000
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Psychology
- Literary Criticism | European - French
Dewey: 843.912
LCCN: 00028242
Series: Modern French Identities
Physical Information: 243 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - French
Features: Maps
 
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This comparative study of the work of Colette and Marguerite Duras analyses the complex and intricate links between identity and narrative, and challenges recent theoretical discussion in both literary and psychoanalytic domains. Exploring the textual preoccupations that Colette and Duras shared - in particular their concerns with gender relations, with the genesis of the woman writer, and with the fraught but fascinating bonds between mothers and daughters and lovers - this analysis highlights how the profoundly different perspectives of Colette and Duras mark out space for a new interrelation of self and other; an interrelation that emphasises the enigmatic territories of consciousness such as fantasy and memory, and the significant collision of subjectivities in erotic, desiring and familial relations. Working with the most recent and innovative developments in performative theory and Kristevan psychoanalysis, this book offers a new reading of subjectivity through the creative interplay of theory and text.
 
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