Literary Theory through the Case of Marguerite Duras
1st unit: Post-Colonialism or - Childhood in the Colonies
a. Duras/ Un Barrage Contre le Pacifique
b. Ann Stoler/ Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers: European Identities and the Cultural Politics of Exclusion in Colonial Southeast Asia
a. Duras/ L’amant
b. Eduard Said/ Orientalism & segments of Out of Place: A Memoir
a. Duras/ L’amant de la chine du nord
b. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak/ In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics
2nd unit: Trauma studies or - War and Résistance
a. Duras/ La douleur
b. Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub/ Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History
a. Duras/ Cahiers de la Guerre
b. Dominick LaCapra/ Writing History Writing Trauma
3rd unit: Psychoanalysis or: Love Stories
a. Duras/ Lol V. Stein
b. Zigmund Freud/ Beyond the Pleasure Principle
a. Duras/ Moderato cantabile
b. Julia Kristeva/ Black Sun
4th unit: Death
a. Duras/ C’est Tout
b. Martin Heidegger, second division of Sein und Zeit
a. Duras/ Ecrire
b. Maurice Blanchot/ L’espace Littéraire