SOURCE: “Marguerite Duras: Women's Language in Men's Cities,” in Women Writers and the City: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism, edited by Susan Merrill Squier, The University of Tennessee Press, 1984, pp. 35-44.
In the following essay, Rava examines the attempts of Duras's female characters to create a linguistic voice and presence for themselves in the predominantly male urban milieu.
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