Keywords
Marguerite Duras
The Sea Wall
hybridity
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Accepted 2024-11-13
Published 2025-01-04
Abstract
The Sea Wall (A Barragem Contra o Oceano Pacífico) is among Duras' earliest realist works, as it is not merely a fictional narrative but an autobiographical novel. Set in a French colony in Indochina in the early 20th century, the novel portrays the experiences of an ordinary French family who emigrated to the colony. Existing scholarship on the novel largely falls into two categories: one focusing on narrative techniques and creative strategies, and the other adopting a cultural studies framework, with attention to feminist and psychological dimensions. This paper, however, seeks to reinterpret the novel through a post-colonial lens, emphasizing Duras' hybrid cultural identity and its influence on her work. By analyzing Duras' life story and the historical period in which she lived, this study explores how her characters inhabit a "third space"—a conceptual site shaped by the intersection of colonial and indigenous identities.
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