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Le corps fantomatique dans Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein de Marguerite Duras et La Maison étrangère d'Élise Turcotte
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Arvisais, Alexandra |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | The 1970s have seen the body become a stronghold of identity and offer a new language for the theorization of women's writing. Since then, representations of the body, especially of the female body, have taken over the novel. In that perspective, this dissertation studies the ghostly body of two heroines in Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein by Marguerite Duras and La Maison étrangère by Élise Turcotte. Their bodies are marked by absence, eeriness, tiredness and wandering, unable to fully exist within a world that has lost its bearings following a “traumatic event” for Lol and the end of a relationship for Élisabeth. The protagonists suffer from an eerie sensation that essentially “spectralises” the body by revealing a gap in their relationship to themselves as well as to others. This sensation is caused in part by a failing memory which breaks up their sense of self. Trying to work through these memory faults, both Lol and Élisabeth aspire to solve the dread of their personal and familial history which seems to be at the root of their ghostly, uncomfortable grasp on their own body. The text echoes back to the spectral corporeality – staged by different representations of the dematerialized body – through « blanks » left within the writing. The process by which the bodies seem to vanish or disappear can be closely associated with a particular spacio-temporality, itself tainted by a haunting past. Spectrality occurs, in women's contemporary fiction, to express an identity compromised by the ending of a relationship ; this particular event becomes the pretext for a reflection about how one inhabits not only their body, but also the world it binds them to. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1866/8809/Arvisais_Alexandra_2012_memoire.pdf;jsessionid=6196CBDE463922839D28A4C33AA93061?sequence=2 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
