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Monsters and Revolutionaries : Colonial Family Romance and Metissage /

In Monsters and Revolutionaries Françoise Vergès analyzes the complex relationship between the colonizer and colonized on the Indian Ocean island of Réunion. Through novels, iconography, and texts from various disciplines including law, medicine, and psychology, Vergès constructs a political and...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Verges, Françoise, 1952- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1999.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Preface: Bitter Sugar's Island
  • 1. The Family Romance of French Colonialism and Metissage
  • 2. Contested Family Romances: Slaves, Workers, Children
  • 3. Blood Politics and Political Assimilation
  • 4. "Ote Debre, rouver la port lenfer, Diab kominis i sa rentre": Cold War Demonology in the Postcolony
  • 5. Single Mothers, Missing Fathers, and French Psychiatrists
  • Epilogue: A Small Island.