Françoise Vergès

Monsters and Revolutionaries

Colonial Family Romance and Metissage

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Produktbeschreibung

"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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9780822322948
• ISBN-10: 0822322943
• Artikelnr.: 21898881

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations ix
Preface: Bitter Sugar's Island xi
Acknowledgments xix
The Family Romance of French Colonialism and Métissage 1
Contested Family Romances: Slaves, Workers, Children 22
Blood Politics and Political Assimilation 72
"Oté Debré, rouver la port lenfer, Diab kominis i sa rentré": Cold War
Demonology in the Postcolony 123
Single Mothers, Missing Fathers, and French Psychiatrists 185
Epilogue: A Small Island 246
Notes 251
Bibliography 353
Index 389