The Romanic Review, May 1st, 1993
Marguerite Duras' writings contain an anticolonial attitude which lends itself to social criticism encompassing the marginalization of women and the underprivileged. Her stories can be analyzed along three polar axes: center/margin, inside/outside and subject/object. The central colonial power, such as the British Empire in India, makes marginal outsider objects of its colonial peoples. Duras' style then conveys the marginalization through such narrative stylistics as keeping Europeans in focus as the subjects of the stories.
In the last ten years or so, Duras's writings have generated an inc...
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