Monsters and revolutionaries : colonial family romance and métissage / Françoise Vergès.

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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Main Author: Vergès, Françoise, 1952- (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1999.
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505 0 0 |t Preface: Bitter Sugar's Island --  |g 1.  |t The Family Romance of French Colonialism and Metissage --  |g 2.  |t Contested Family Romances: Slaves, Workers, Children --  |g 3.  |t Blood Politics and Political Assimilation --  |g 4.  |t "Ote Debre, rouver la port lenfer, Diab kominis i sa rentre": Cold War Demonology in the Postcolony --  |g 5.  |t Single Mothers, Missing Fathers, and French Psychiatrists --  |t Epilogue: A Small Island. 
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