Boulomsouk Svadphaiphane

Pornotropic : Marguerite Duras et l'illusion coloniale

Nathalie Masduraud, Valérie Urrea

Romane Bohringer, Ann Laura Stoler

When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt. Meanwhile, in Indochina, France was suffering its first military defeats in its war against the Việt Minh, the rebel movement for independence.