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Duras' Oriental Novel And Cina Empire

Posted on:2011-06-19Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M JiangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360308477724Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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In the narratives of France Empire, Marguerite Duras was a maverick remarkable talent writer in literary circles. Long time positioned in the culture of oversea colonies,she formed a plural cultural identity. Because of hesitating in the edge of the Western Empire, Duras expressed her dissatisfaction of the brutal rule of the colonial authorities in some of her works, however, the strong eager of returning to the Empire made her become a cultural brokers who had a strong sense of colonial, she attempted to create her own world in the text under twisting oriental colony.Duras's novel is full of oriental narrative logic of colonialism, and pervaded a strong sense of the imperialism.She described the oriental at will, in her novels the east turned into a place that full of evil and arcane power, which can awake the European's wicked desires.Through depriving of the oriental women's rights to speak,Duras won the right to write them arbitrarily,in her text, the oriental women were transformed into a group of disturbed people that insensitive, no ideas, mad and licentious.The oriental men were also insignificant,insensitive, willing obedience to the Whites, and waiting for the redemption of the white people.Duras had never got rid of cultural context that produced by the tangled memories of herself with Chinese lover. In order to forget the secret which could not be told about, she gave a capricious cultural identity for the lover skillfully and gained the greatest extent of freedom of writing, she added a white mask on the lover's face at will, sometimes she made him into an"mimicman"to pour ridicule on him, and sometime she made him into an European to place the French girls on the altar of feelings justifiably.As the echo of the imperialism, Duras'novel keened on creating"white mythology", she considered that one of the most important reasons of the asian culture who elementde represented by opium could be still alive in the global clashes of civilizations was the strong leadership of the empire.The European played a dual role of enlightenment and redeemer.Today, France's Cina Empire had collapsed, reconstruct Duras'oriental novel in the Post-colonialism can help us to fathom how the hegemonism influenced the writers and how the writers served the colonialism. Such study not only could subvert the logic of the empire of Western culture and the narrative strategy, but also could provide an important frame of reference of reconstructing a new international cultural order. So the deep analysis and systematic study on this subject are of great significance in theory and practice.
Keywords/Search Tags:Duras, oriental novels, Imperial Consciousness, the call of the wild, Chinese lover, national narcissism, clash of civilization
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