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Description - The Erotics of Passage: Pleasure, Politics, and Form in the Later Work of Marguerite Duras by James S. Williams

A complete account of the fiction, films and media work of Marguerite Duras since the film "Le Camion" in 1977. This study examines the formal pleasures of Duras's work in order to reassess the predominant critical view that it represents a radical and painful engagement with alterity and difference. It is argued that "Le Camion" marks the birth of a new sadomasochiastic aesthetic, at once post-feminist and post-political, founded on violence and ironic error. Ideas are offered on the relations between eroticism, sexual identity, artistic form and sublimation. By considering all aspects of Duras's production since 1977, the author examines the most important themes and features of the later corpus, including Duras's self-reflexive and erotic practice of montage; her cultivation of a new literary style which engages intertextually with European and American writers and filmmakers; her creation of a marginal space of "anti-literature"; her development of a (post-)political sublime; and her reinvention with Jann Andrea of literary collaboration as a sexual cure.
The author pursues a variety of approaches - psychoanalytical, theoretical, rhetorical, linguistic, intertextual and speculative, and includes close readings of the major films in a cultural and political context.

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