Critical Subjectivities
Identity and Narrative in the Work of Colette and Marguerite Duras
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Beschreibung
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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Victoria Best
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Best Colette consciousness Critical Duras erotic gender relations Identity Marguerite memory Narrative psychoanalysis Subjectivities Work
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«Best has produced a challenging and stimulating book. Her application of theory to the two authors is convincing and has yielded fresh insights. Her discussions of selected works of Duras are particularly illuminating and will undoubtedly be recognised as significant contributions to Durassian scholarship.» (Bronwen Martin, Bulletin de la Société Marguerite Duras)
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