LEADER 04381nam 22007574 450 001 9910974733103321 005 20241015171211.0 010 $a9780822322948 010 $a0822322943 010 $a9780822379096 010 $a0822379090 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822379096 035 $a(CKB)3710000000229447 035 $a(OCoLC)607300832 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10927494 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001335651 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12506999 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001335651 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11286185 035 $a(PQKB)11367343 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3008041 035 $a889285287 035 $a(OCoLC)1150211262 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse80345 035 $a(DE-B1597)553411 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822379096 035 $a(OCoLC)1226678911 035 $a(Perlego)1458345 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000229447 100 $a20140826d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMonsters and revolutionaries $ecolonial family romance and me?tissage /$fFranc?oise Verge?s 210 1$aDurham, [N.C.] :$cDuke University Press,$d1999. 215 $a1 online resource (416 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781322112473 311 08$a1322112479 311 08$a9780822322627 311 08$a0822322625 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [353]-388) and index. 327 $tPreface: Bitter Sugar's Island --$g1.$tThe Family Romance of French Colonialism and Metissage --$g2.$tContested Family Romances: Slaves, Workers, Children --$g3.$tBlood Politics and Political Assimilation --$g4.$t"Ote Debre, rouver la port lenfer, Diab kominis i sa rentre": Cold War Demonology in the Postcolony --$g5.$tSingle Mothers, Missing Fathers, and French Psychiatrists --$tEpilogue: A Small Island. 330 $aIn 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, and Madagascar, the island was defined as a place based on mixed heritages, or métissage. Vergès reads the relationship between France and the residents of Réunion as a family romance: France is the seemingly protective mother, La Mère-Patrie, while the people of Réunion are seen and see themselves as France?s children. Arguing that the central dynamic in the colonial family romance is that of debt and dependence, Verges explains how the republican ideals of the French Revolution and the Enlightenment are seen as gifts to Réunion that can never be repaid. This dynamic is complicated by the presence of métissage, a source of anxiety to the colonizer in its refutation of the ?purity? of racial bloodlines. For Vergès, the island?s history of slavery is the key to understanding métissage, the politics of assimilation, constructions of masculinity, and emancipatory discourses on Réunion. 606 $aEthnopsychology$zRe?union$xHistory 606 $aAcculturation$zRe?union$xHistory 606 $aMultiracial people$zRe?union$xHistory 606 $aEthnopsychology$zFrance$xHistory 607 $aRe?union$xHistory$y1764-1946 607 $aRe?union$xRace relations 607 $aFrance$xColonies$xAdministration 607 $aFrance$xColonies$xRace relations 615 0$aEthnopsychology$xHistory. 615 0$aAcculturation$xHistory. 615 0$aMultiracial people$xHistory. 615 0$aEthnopsychology$xHistory. 676 $a969/.8102 700 $aVerge?s$b Franc?oise$f1952-$01806741 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910974733103321 996 $aMonsters and revolutionaries$94356093 997 $aUNINA