The Poetics of Elusive History: Marguerite Duras, War Traumas, and the Dilemmas of Literary Representation
This article examines the relationship between minimalist storytelling and literary representation. In the case of Marguerite Duras's Hiroshima mon amour , the author shows that the preference for simple sentences, ellipsis, and parataxis over elaborate syntactic...
| Veröffentlicht in: | The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies. - Modern Humanities Research Association, 2009. - 107(2012), 4, Seite 1064-1081 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
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2012
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies |
| Schlagworte: | Behavioral sciences History Political science Social sciences Arts |
| Zusammenfassung: | This article examines the relationship between minimalist storytelling and literary representation. In the case of Marguerite Duras's Hiroshima mon amour , the author shows that the preference for simple sentences, ellipsis, and parataxis over elaborate syntactic structures is not adverse to representation. The technique of foregrounding absences, silences, and the resistance of reality to being captured in a positively given content and form engages readers in reflection on the intricacies of representing reality. By staging a breakdown in depicting Hiroshima, Duras's text is designed to draw attention to its mechanism of displacement, thereby exposing its failure to represent the ongoing war in Algeria. |
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| ISSN: | 22224297 |
| DOI: | 10.5699/modelangrevi.107.4.1064 |