Representation of Women in Un barrage contre le Pacifique

Abstract

This analysis of Marguerite Duras’s "Un barrage contre le Pacifique" focuses on the representation of women in the novel. The female body is depicted through various images, such as that of a slave or a docile, resigned woman. The narrative and discursive devices used in the story highlight the richness of Duras’s text in presenting multiple conceptions and images of the marginalized female.