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Julia Waters

Duras and Indochina: postcolonial perspectives

Duras and Indochina: Postcolonial Perspectives, 2006

‘Je suis quelqu’un qui ne sera jamais revenu dans son pays natal’, Duras stated in 1987, so simul... more ‘Je suis quelqu’un qui ne sera jamais revenu dans son pays natal’, Duras stated in 1987, so simultaneously defining herself in relation to the place of her birth and as eternally displaced from it. Born as the child of impoverished colons in the colonial outpost of French Indochina in 1914, Duras left the country of her birth and childhood at the age of eighteen, never to return. Although Duras never physically returned to her ‘pulverised’ pays natal, her literary works attest to a repeated figurative return to the Indochina of her childhood, as originary source of creative inspiration and as the professed key to her writerly imaginary. This study analyses Duras’s first and long-overlooked propagandist work, L’Empire français, as intertextual precursor to her later, ‘Indochinese’ literary works, Un barrage contre le Pacifique (1950), L’Amant (1984) and L’Amant de

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Julia Waters

Professor for the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Reading.

Main teaching interests are modern and contemporary French and francophone literature, women’s writing, and translation.

Her latest monograph, The Mauritian Novel: Fictions of Belonging, was published in December 2018 with Liverpool University Press and is available in Open Access format: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvt1sk5f

Her book, Duras and Indochina: Postcolonial Perspectives (Liverpool: SFPS Critical Studies, 2006) is now available in digital form here: http://sfps.org.uk/sfps-critical-studies/

In 2012-13, she held an AHRC Fellowship for a research project on Contemporary Mauritian Literature: (De)Colonisation, Globalisation, Multiculturalism.

Contact:j.waters@reading.ac.uk

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Julie Walters

English actress (born 1950)

For the fictional character of the same name, see The 13th Man.

Dame Julie Walters DBE
Walters in 2014
Born	Julia Mary Walters (1950-02-22) 22 February 1950 (age 74) Edgbaston, Birmingham, England
Alma mater	Manchester School of Theatre
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1972–present
Spouse	Grant Roffey (m. 1997)
Children	1

Dame Julia Mary Walters (born 22 February 1950), known professionally as Julie Walters, is an English actress. She is the recipient of four British Academy Television Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two International Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and an Olivier Award.

Walters has been nominated for two Academy Awards across acting categories—once for Best Actress and once for Best Supporting Actress. She was honoured with the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement in 2014. She was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2017 for services to drama.

Walters rose to prominence playing the title rol