The Oriental World In Marguerite Duras’s Works

Marguerite Duras is the most creative contemporary figure in France. In half a century of artistic creation, Duras left the world precious spiritual wealth. Duras has a mixed cultural identity. Oriental childhood experiences became an important source of material and inspiration for the future creation of Duras. The East is an important theme of the creation of Duras. The EAST theme plays an important role in33novels and11plays of her creation. After half a page of the twentieth century, affected by irrational thought, Duras emphasized the shaded edge and irrational areas in writings. In the center of the discourse in the West, the East has been given marginal, irrational, heterogeneous natures. The oriental traits fit in with the themes Duras often expressed in her works. Using profound artistic sensibility, Duras connected the East and novels’themes skillfully. This article has the following parts:First, in the introduction, the thesis makes a related presentation of the East-West mixed background of Duras and the Oriental series of novels. Besides, the thesis makes a brief review of the research status at home and abroad about Duras. And the introduction concluded that the significance of the topic of this paper aims to re-examine the oriental world in the perspective of Eastern and Western culture.The first chapter summarizes the Eastern world as an exile and the edge of the world. With the mixed Cultural identity, Duras showed us the Suffering, closure, marginality and heterogeneity of the East. Duras represent a rootless wandering in the city of Calcutta.The second chapter summarizes the Eastern world as an irrational and heterogeneous world. The madwoman of the colony symbolizes the universality of colonial madness. On behalf of the whites of the colony, Anna and the Vice-Consul took the form of a non-rational way through self-destructive and violent revolution respectively. Music, drunkenness and leprosy are the irrational manifestations and reflect Homi Bhabha’s "interstitial space" theory.The third chapter summarizes the Eastern world as a Desire World. The East is the desired object to the West and the symbol of lust. Desire theme and body writing are important subjects of Duras’s creation. In the post-colonial discourse, the relationship between the sexes becomes erotic symbol of power between East and West.In the Conclusion, the thesis makes a summary based on the above chapters.The mixed cultural identity of Duras provided the possibility of the three-dimensional, multi-faceted Oriental narration. With emphasizing the cultural differences and promoting cultural diversity, Duras’s works, full of tension and profundity, are worth examining and thinking in contemporary society.