in:
Cambridge:
1998
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659 - 677 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Crowley, Martin |
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| Jahr: | 1998 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| In the mid-1970s, a new character enters the ranks of marginal or oppressed figures championed by Marguerite Duras: the homosexual. Her treatment of this figure over the following years is somewhat ambivalent, however, while she initially embraces homosexuality as part of a disruption of what she terms "la classe phallique", she later denounces it as supposedly sterile and solipsistic. At the same time, Duras is developing a vision of writing as radically beyond the contingencies of precisely such polemic. The literary texts in which her rejection of homosexuality is elaborated thus have two contradictory aims: to denounce homosexuality while avoiding mere denunciation. The ironic result of this contradiction is that the very ambiguities employed by Duras in order to effect such an elevation in fact work to keep her writing caught on the edge of the world it was supposed to have transcended. | |
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