Monsters and Revolutionaries: Colonial Family Romance and Metissage

by Françoise Vergès

Book Overview

In Monsters and Revolutionaries Fran oise Verg s analyzes the complex relationship between the colonizer and colonized on the Indian Ocean island of R union. Through novels, iconography, and texts from various disciplines including law, medicine, and psychology, Verg s constructs a political and cultural history of the island's relations with France. Woven throughout is Verg s's own family history, which is intimately tied to the history of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822322943
• ISBN13: 9780822322948
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 9.0"