Feminism in Literature | Duras, Marguerite - Trista Selous (Essay Date 1988)

TRISTA SELOUS (ESSAY DATE 1988)

SOURCE: Selous, Trista. “Order, Chaos and Subversive Details.” In The Other Woman: Feminism and Femininity in the Work of Marguerite Duras, pp. 233-52. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

In the following essay, Selous claims that Duras’s writing provides a space for the feminine desiring subject as opposed to the stereotypical representation of woman as the object of male desire.

Although Duras’s novels are works of fiction, in both the structural place they give to women, and the way in which they portray ‘what women want’, they resemble the writings of theorists using the Lacanian theoretical framework to look at women’s sexuality such as, in addition to Lacan himself, Montrelay, Marini, Irigaray, Lemoine-Luccioni, and many more. In the work of these writers, most of whom are women, women’s desire, sexuality and relation to language are seen as...

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