The Erotics of Passage : Pleasure, Politics, and Form in the Later Work of Marguerite Duras

Offers a full account of Duras' later fiction, film, and media work, beginning the with film Le camion (1977). Explores her self-reflexive and erotic practice of cinematic montage, her development of a new literary style called Tcriture courante , her creation of a gay-encoded space of anti-literature, and her invention with Yann AndrTa of literary collaboration as a form of "sexual cure." Pursues a variety of theoretical approaches, including psychoanalytic, comparative, and linguistic. For scholars in French studies. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.