Un Barrage contre le Pacifique, L'Amant and L'Amant de la Chine du Nord, three books written by Marguerite Duras, can be distinguished from the rest of the author's literary production by their will to rewrite the author's love story with a Chinese man. In the first novel of this cycle, cinema occupies such an important place as a theme that it influences the characters' life. In the two other novels, it appears less as a theme than through cinematographical devices that transform the author's literary style. / This thesis attempts to explain in what way cinema influences the novelistic writing of Marguerite Duras. More specifically, this study exposes the three novels' generical, intertextual, thematical and semiotical characteristics in order to establish how they contribute to the creation of a particular writing style influenced by cinema.

This dissertation focuses on the issue of hybridity in Marguerite Duras' corpus of Indochinese texts, as well as on the meeting of identities in the colonial realm. In order to identify the problematics of colonial coexistence, we will address the themes of the encounter between the Orient and the Occident, the use of hybrid discourse and the role of memory in the process of rewriting. Edward Said's Orientalism theory as well as Homi Bhabha's concept of ambivalence in colonial discourse will serve as the basis for the analysis of the Indochinese cycle. Far from being a totalizing experience, hybridity will reveal itself as being a harrowing dichotomy.

The work of Marguerite Duras comprises seventeen "texts-films" distributed throughout its filmic period from 1969 to 1985. These texts guides of films constitute a particular form of filmic writing which utilizes three different modes of expression. Located at the three decade old border, the text-films being studied here, Detruire ditelle, (1969), Nathalie Granger (1972), Agatha (1981) differently ask the same question of the literary, theatrical and filmic genre all while escaping from it. The "texte-film" which is primarily plural and plurifunctional is showed here in three states, at three moments of its continuous creation. In a rejection of the traditional structures of transposition of writing to film, they challenge authorities as varied as the dialogical form, the dramatic text, the scenario. Stages of a long renouncement of writing or revivals of a creativity unceasingly searching for new ways to express itself, the "texts-films" studied here are holding essential keys to understanding the very whole work of Marguerite Duras.

Thesis (doctoral)--Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 1995. / Cover title. Includes bibliographical references (p. 587-597).

Thesis (doctoral)--Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 1995. / Cover title. Includes bibliographical references (p. 587-597).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1998. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [175]-196). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1998. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [175]-196). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2000. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-06, Section: A, page: 2325. Advisers: Gerald Mead; Mireille Rosello.

No description available.

No description available.