Writing the Land/scape: Marie Darrieussecq's Le Pays

Recycled back into English during the 1960s, the use of the word environnement to mean the physical world has been viewed with suspicion and at times rejected outright (Serres). [...]the term "environmentalism" that has been derived from the term "environment" to mean a concern f...

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Main Author: Posthumus, Stephanie
Format: Book Chapter
Language:English
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Darrieussecq, Marie (1969- )
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Summary:Recycled back into English during the 1960s, the use of the word environnement to mean the physical world has been viewed with suspicion and at times rejected outright (Serres). [...]the term "environmentalism" that has been derived from the term "environment" to mean a concern for the physical world does not have an exact equivalent in French. [...]they illustrate the inherent connections between the self and the physical world but also more generally point to the politics of national identity. [...]both Marie Rivière and Marie Darrieussecq explain that absence and emptiness are not closed spaces filled by language and writing but rather they represent an openness into which elements of the real world flow and combine with images and phrases. [...]writing represents a political act for Darrieussecq as it subverts dominant social discourses and creates new ways of thinking about the world outside the text:
ISSN:0271-6607
1938-2642
DOI:10.1163/9789401208840_008