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The Sea Wall

Author : Marguerite Duras
Publisher : New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sea Wall written by Marguerite Duras and published by New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1967 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sea Wall is the story of an unnamed mother (in the whole book, she's called la mère) and her two grownup children, Joseph and Suzanne. The husband and father died a long time ago, leaving his family behind without a source of income. The mother put food on the table by playing the piano in a local cinema. She saved money to buy a concession, land allocated by the French authorities to settlers. She put all her savings in it and the land proved to be impossible to cultivate because it is flooded by the ocean every year. The local French authorities knew it. Several families had already been allocated this piece of land and each of them was evicted because they couldn't pay their debts anymore. The Sea Wall denounces the corruption of the French civil servants sent there. They exploited the ignorance of settlers, making them pay higher than the market for bare land and then evicted the families without a second thought when they could cultivate the land and pay their debts.

Rewriting Rewriting

Author : Cathy Jellenik
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820495255
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Rewriting Rewriting written by Cathy Jellenik and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the storytelling of any time rewrites itself, rewriting became a primary concern in the literature of the twentieth century, an era characterized as having quoted, reenacted, cannibalized, revised, redone, refurbished, and outright plagiarized the texts of earlier times. The modern obsession with literary reiteration manifests itself in a rather unique way in the narratives of Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux, and Marie Redonnet. These authors systematically and repeatedly rewrite their own texts, and in so doing, give evidence of three of the more salient aspects of twentieth-century French literature: a trend toward the representation of multifaceted selves, a desire to reevaluate the literary paradigm, and an acute concern for the unreliability of language. This book argues that the rewriting performed by Duras, Ernaux, and Redonnet moves beyond the tacit rewriting that occurs in any text toward a renovation of various features of the literary arena within which they circulate. Cathy Jellenik argues that all writing contains rewriting - an argument grounded in the theoretical apparatuses of Saussure, Bakhtin, Benveniste, Barthes, Kristeva, and Derrida. She then examines and interrogates the ways in which Duras, Ernaux, and Redonnet use rewriting to question and rethink the literary traditions they inherit. Jellenik suggests that the rewriting projects of Duras, Ernaux, and Redonnet promise to lead them, and their readers, toward the creation of a new literary aesthetic capable of responding to the questions of our times.

Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature

Author : Leslie Barnes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803249977
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature written by Leslie Barnes and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature explores an aspect of modern French literature that has been consistently overlooked in literary histories: the relationship between the colonies—their cultures, languages, and people—and formal shifts in French literary production. Starting from the premise that neither cultural identity nor cultural production can be pure or homogenous, Leslie Barnes initiates a new discourse on the French literary canon by examining the work of three iconic French writers with personal connections to Vietnam: André Malraux, Marguerite Duras, and Linda Lê. In a thorough investigation of the authors’ linguistic, metaphysical, and textual experiences of colonialism, Barnes articulates a new way of reading French literature: not as an inward-looking, homogenous, monolingual tradition, but rather as a tradition of intersecting and interdependent peoples, cultures, and experiences. One of the few books to focus on Vietnam’s position within francophone literary scholarship, Barnes challenges traditional concepts of French cultural identity and offers a new perspective on canonicity and the division between “French” and “francophone” literature.

Marguerite Duras

Author : Deborah N. Glassman
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838633373
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Marguerite Duras written by Deborah N. Glassman and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras raises theoretical issues of representation and formal issues of cinematic and literary languages. The novel Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein and the film India Song are examine using a psychoanalytic model of interpretation.

Fantasia, an Algerian Cavalcade

Author : Assia Djebar
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fantasia, an Algerian Cavalcade written by Assia Djebar and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stunning novel, Assia Djebar intertwines the history of her native Algeria with episodes from the life of a young girl in a story stretching from the French conquest in 1830 to the War of Liberation of the 1950s. The girl, growing up in the old Roman coastal town of Cherchel, sees her life in contrast to that of a neighboring French family, and yearns for more than law and tradition allow her to experience. Headstrong and passionate, she escapes from the cloistered life of her family to join her brother in the maquis' fight against French domination. Djebar's exceptional descriptive powers bring to life the experiences of girls and women caught up in the dual struggle for independence - both their own and Algeria's.

Order and Partialities

Author : Kostas Myrsiades
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791426395
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Order and Partialities written by Kostas Myrsiades and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the political and cultural issues involved in teaching postcolonial literatures and theories.

Marguerite Duras

Author : Laure Adler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226007588
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Marguerite Duras written by Laure Adler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-12-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in English, the bestseller of France traces the life of one of that country's most prolific yet controversial figures. The life of the author of "The Lover" and "The War: A Memoir" is explored through events central to Duras's career by means of letters, unpublished manuscripts, and interviews. Photos.

Revisioning Duras

Author : James S. Williams
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853235569
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Revisioning Duras written by James S. Williams and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Home, Maison, Casa

Author : Erica L. Johnson
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838639610
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Home, Maison, Casa written by Erica L. Johnson and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book is concerned with homes, maisons, and case - English, French, and Italian words which refer to a similar idea yet which reveal, together, that the notion of being at home, a la maison, or a case pivots on the axis of material dwelling places as well as the more abstract concept of being at home, or chez soi.".

The Lover

Author : Marguerite Duras
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307801209
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Lover written by Marguerite Duras and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France's Prix Goncourt, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984. Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon in the waning days of France's colonial empire, and its representation in the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts. Long unavailable in hardcover, this edition of The Lover includes a new introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston that looks back at Duras's world from an intriguing new perspective--that of a visitor to Vietnam today.

Middlebrow Matters

Author : Diana Holmes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1786941562
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Middlebrow Matters written by Diana Holmes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to study the middlebrow novel in France. It asks what middlebrow means, and applies the term positively to explore the 'poetics' of the types of novel that have attracted 'ordinary' fiction readers - in their majority female - since the end of the 19th century.

Marguerite Duras

Author : Renate Gunther
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719057571
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book Marguerite Duras written by Renate Gunther and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the work of French filmmaker Marguerite Duras, as an expression of both her personal experience and her political commitment. The films are thus located within their autobiographical, as well as their social and historical context. Individual chapters consider the relationship between Duras's wok as a writer and a director, the impact of socialism and feminism on her cinema, and representations of gender and sexuality in her films.

The Mother / Daughter Plot

Author : Marianne Hirsch
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253115751
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book The Mother / Daughter Plot written by Marianne Hirsch and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1989-10-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mothers and daughters -- the female figures neglected by classic psychoanalysis and submerged in traditional narrative -- are at the center of this book. The novels of nineteenth- and twentieth-century women writers from the Western European and North American traditions reveal that the story of motherhood remains the unspeakable plot of Western culture. Focusing on the feminine and, more controversially, on the maternal, this book alters our perception of both the familial structures basic to traditional narrative -- the Oedipus story -- and the narrative structures basic to traditional representations of the family -- Freud's family romance. Confronting psychoanalytic theories of subject-formation with narrative theories, Marianne Hirsch traces the emergence and transformation of female family romance patterns from Jane Austen to Marguerite Duras.

Duras/Godard Dialogues

Author : Marguerite Duras
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999468364
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Duras/Godard Dialogues written by Marguerite Duras and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The two demonstrate a profound shared passion, a way of literally being one with a medium and speaking about it with a dazzling lyricism interspersed with dryly ironic remarks, fueled by a conviction that inspires them to traverse history. Their point of intersection is obvious. Duras, a writer, is also a filmmaker, and Godard, a filmmaker, has maintained a distinctive relationship with literature, writing and speech."--Cyril Béghin, back cover.

New York Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1986-04-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Gendered Resistance

Author : Valérie Baisnée
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004650873
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Gendered Resistance written by Valérie Baisnée and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-04-24 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four major women's autobiographies of the twentieth century are discussed together here for the first time. Valérie Baisnée reinterprets the autobiographical writing of Simone De Beauvoir, Maya Angelou, Janet Frame and Marguerite Duras, finding some striking similarities in these women's resistance to a conservative order. Deploying a variety of theoretical approaches, from linguistic to Marxist, Baisnée endeavours to break the restrictive patterns of author-centred studies, to go beyond simple oppositions between truth and fiction, and to dispense with the facile interpretation of these texts as confessional. For Valérie Baisnée, Autobiography is meant to represent not the true but the official version of a life, signed by the author herself and revered as hagiography by the public. ... Instead of analysing women's autobiographies as confessional, it is possible to see this mode of discourse as a means to counteract the effect of exposure of women's private lives. By revealing their past, however painful it may be, the four autobiographers studied in this book also enhance their present strength, and therefore underline the political nature of the autobiography.

Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Author : Philippe Rège
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 081086939X
Total Pages : 1486 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of French Film Directors written by Philippe Rège and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-12-11 with total page 1486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema has been long associated with France, dating back to 1895, when Louis and Auguste Lumi_re screened their works, the first public viewing of films anywhere. Early silent pioneers Georges MZli_s, Alice Guy BlachZ and others followed in the footsteps of the Lumi_re brothers and the tradition of important filmmaking continued throughout the 20th century and beyond. In Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Philippe Rège identifies every French director who has made at least one feature film since 1895. From undisputed masters to obscure one-timers, nearly 3,000 directors are cited here, including at least 200 filmmakers not mentioned in similar books published in France. Each director's entry contains a brief biographical summary, including dates and places of birth and death; information on the individual's education and professional training; and other pertinent details, such as real names (when the filmmaker uses a pseudonym). The entries also provide complete filmographies, including credits for feature films, shorts, documentaries, and television work. Some of the most important names in the history of film can be found in this encyclopedia, from masters of the Golden Age_Jean Renoir and RenZ Clair_to French New Wave artists such as Fran_ois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.