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Monsters and Revolutionaries: Colonial Family Romance and Metissage
Françoise Vergès
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Description for Monsters and Revolutionaries: Colonial Family Romance and Metissage
Paperback. Analyses the complex relationship between the coloniser and colonised on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion. Through novels, iconography, and texts from various disciplines including law, medicine, and psychology, this title constructs a political and cultural history of the island's relations with France. Num Pages: 416 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QSN; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBJH; HBLL; HBTB; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 30. Weight in Grams: 670.
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 cultural history of the island’s relations with France. Woven throughout is Vergès’s own family history, which is intimately tied to the history of Réunion itself.
Originally settled by sugar plantation owners and their Indian and African slaves following a seventeenth-century French colonial decree, Réunion abolished slavery in 1848. Because plantation owners continued to import workers from India, Africa, Asia, ... Read more
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 cultural history of the island’s relations with France. Woven throughout is Vergès’s own family history, which is intimately tied to the history of Réunion itself.
Originally settled by sugar plantation owners and their Indian and African slaves following a seventeenth-century French colonial decree, Réunion abolished slavery in 1848. Because plantation owners continued to import workers from India, Africa, Asia, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822322948
SKU
V9780822322948
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Françoise Vergès
Françoise Vergès is a Lecturer at the School of European Studies at the University of Sussex. She recently collaborated with Isaac Julien on a film about Frantz Fanon.
Reviews for Monsters and Revolutionaries: Colonial Family Romance and Metissage
“A brilliant piece of work. . . . Monsters and Revolutionaries promises to be an important intervention in the fields of political history and postcolonial discourse.”—Ali Behdad, University of California at Los Angeles “[Vergès’s] richly textured exploration of ‘metissage’ as a discursive strategy of identification, assimilation, and resistance is driven by a fluent engagement with concepts drawn from contemporary criticism, ... Read more