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Article: Michaela M. Grobbel. Enacting Past and Present: The Memory Theatres of Djuna Barnes, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Marguerite Duras.(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2005
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Michaela M. Grobbel. Enacting Past and Present: The Memory Theaters of Djuna Barnes, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Marguerite Duras. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2004. 207 pp. ISBN 0-7391-0756-9, $65.00.
Enacting Past and Present offers, in successive chapters, close readings of three innovative and provocative twentieth-century women's texts--Djuna Barnes's Nightwood (1936), Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina (1971), and Marguerite Duras's Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein (1964)--focusing on memory as a performative act, the return of corporeality to classical understandings of memory, and the infusion of the present in any construction of the past. Pursuing its inquiry from a ...