TY - EJOUR A1 - Kocevar, Savannah TI - The “dark blood” of the Wild Girl - Sacrificial Matricide and Creative Process in Marguerite Duras’ Indochinese Cycle T2 - La Revue des lettres modernes 2024 – 5, n° 8. Duras, mythe(s), écriture et création suivi de Lectures des Petits Chevaux de Tarquinia JO - La Revue des lettres modernes (ISSN 0035-2136), 2024 – 5 DO - 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-16974-1.p.0075 SN - 0035-2136 SP - 75 EP - 89 AB - The texts of the Indochinese cycle are anchored in a period of change characterized by the same scenario: an aged and weakened mother is dying, while a young girl aspires to leave childhood to gain independence. Reactualizing a mythical way of thinking, the stories of this cycle show how the fabrication of both feminine identities (i.e., the so-called ‘physiological’ states and the cultural status given to the body) and scriptural identities correlate with the sacrificial murder of the mother. PY - 2024 DA - 2024/05/29 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier CY - Paris KW - ethnocriticism, body, look, Indochinese cycle, becoming a writer, ritual-narrative homology, blood, ink, cynegetics LA - fre UR - https://classiques-garnier.com/la-revue-des-lettres-modernes-2024-5-n-8-duras-mythe-s-ecriture-et-creation-suivi-de-lectures-des-petits-chevaux-de-tarquinia-the-dark-blood-of-the-wild-girl.html Y2 - 2024/07/17 ER -