Capitalisme et colonialisme français dans quelques romans Indochinois de Marguerite Duras
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Opposing the mythology of the “civilizing mission” of colonial France, Marguerite Duras and some other novelists from French Indochina (Daguerches, Dorgelès, Farrère) show in their works that one of the main aims of colonialism was to develop new areas for expanding capitalism, and then indebted to economic factors. This economic dimension that was deliberately hidden by colonial discourse is made prominent by Un Barrage contre le Pacifique through the extended metaphor of vampirism. The paper aims to examine which literary means are implemented to express the criticism of the spread of western capitalism–arbitrarily regarded as the arising of modernity–within a body of anticolonial works about a former French colony.
Author: Yves Clavaron
Language: French
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1895840969