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Öğe The analysis of Marguerite Duras's the malady of death: sexual difference and homonegative fantasies(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2021) Bensusan, Karel; Yazıcı, ÇiğdemABSTRACT: The literary works of Marguerite Duras, a prominent writer of French literature in the 20th century, still maintain the interest they received during her lifetime. Her piece The Malady of Death has been one of her most studied works, subject to analyses from differing perspectives. My research question is the analysis of how the concept of sexual difference, employed as a critique of patriarchy, observed within the text is interrelated with the homonegative discourses reproduced by the text. First, I investigate the use of the idea of sexual difference within the text, by discussing it mainly with Irigaray’s theory. Besides, I also engage with major themes appearing in the book, such as silence, sleep, love, and death. Second, I analyze the text’s homonegative discourses by putting it in dialogue with Duras’s other books and interviews, theoretical and ethical claims of sexual difference feminism, especially Irigaray’s theory, and the homonegative discourses produced within France at the time. For grasping the link between sexual difference and homonegativity, I trace the rhetoric of the flaw of otherness and Duras’s conflation of the patriarch with the homosexual at textual, contextual, and discursive levels.
