{"product_id":"locating-guyane-9781786941114","title":"Locating Guyane","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOverseas department of France in Amazonia and ‘ultraperipheral region’ of the EU, Guyane (French Guiana) is at the juncture of Europe, the Caribbean and South America. This collection of essays explores historical and conceptual locations of Guyane, as a relational space characterised by dynamics of interaction and conflict between the local, the national and the global. Does Guyane have, or has it had, its own place in the world, or is it a borderland which can only make sense in relation to elsewhere: to France and its colonial history, for example, or to African and other diasporas, or as a ‘margin’ of Europe?\u003cbr\u003eThis edited collection is the first volume to study Guyane from multiple perspectives. It subjects the enduring clichés and negative stereotypes regarding Guyane to critical examination, exploring how discourse on this DOM is, and has been, formed and how it may evolve. Chapters discuss geographical, literary and cultural ‘locations’ of Guyane, past and present, challenging its relegation to the ‘periphery’, whilst also historicizing the production of its marginal status. Finally, the collection aims to outline possible future challenges to the conceptual location of Guyane and possible directions for continued research.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The book is a fascinating challenge to historiographies of Guyane as it peels off the layers of its changing relationships with France and other places in the world, detangles its history of contact, reveals the actors involved in its many transitions from place of forced exile to high-tech center, highlights the role its penal past has played in making it “periphery”, and explains what being Guyanais today entails in a globalized world of flows where local Kreyol traditions and Maroon narratives get reinvented and shaped in the context of cultural commercialism and global art markets.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHélène B. Ducros, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEurope Now Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e‘This valuable interdisciplinary volume offers wide-ranging essays that examine stereotypes about France’s Amazonian outpost that go beyond simple images of the country as a ‘green hell.'\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eRobert Aldrich, \u003ci\u003eFrench History \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Overall, with \u003ci\u003eLocating Guyana \u003c\/i\u003eWood and MacLeod have achieved a milestone in the study of French Guyana.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFabio Santos, \u003ci\u003ePERIPHERIE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'English-language works on Guyane are comparatively few and far between, and \u003ci\u003eLocating Guyane \u003c\/i\u003erectifies a lacuna in the wider scholarship by exploring what makes it distinct from its fellow “old colonies” of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Réunion. Given the volume’s interdisciplinarity and the essays’ breadth, the short volume speaks to a wide range of academic disciplines, and consequently it serves as an excellent scholarly primer on Guyane, its colonial legacy, and its place in an increasingly global, modern world.' \u003cbr\u003eChristopher M. Church, \u003ci\u003eH-France Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eRichard Price, ‘The Oldest Daughter of Overseas France’\u003cbr\u003eKari Evanson, ‘Grand Reporters in Guyane: Bringing the Exotic Back Home’\u003cbr\u003eKathleen Gyssels, ‘Kor and Karnival, the carnal road of Léon-Gontran Damas: “Evidence of Things not Seen”’\u003cbr\u003eSilvia Espelt Bombín, ‘Frontier Politics: French, Portuguese and Amerindian Alliances between the Amazon and Cayenne, 1680–1697’\u003cbr\u003eJonna Yarrington, ‘Producing the periphery’\u003cbr\u003eEdenz Maurice, ‘A school in Boniville Political skills and “Primitives’ in French Guiana (1930-1969)’\u003cbr\u003eSarah Wood, ‘Reclaiming Félix Éboué: Departmentalisation and politics of commemoration in Guyane, 1944-2012’\u003cbr\u003eAntonia Cristinoi and François Nemo, ‘Palikur, a language between two worlds’\u003cbr\u003eSally Price, ‘Maroon Art in Guyane: New Forms, New Discourses’\u003cbr\u003eCatriona MacLeod: ‘Performing and Parading Gender in Guyane’s Carnival’\u003cbr\u003eBill Marshall, ‘Equality and Difference: Queering Guyane?’\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: remaking Guyane?\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360122372439,"sku":"9781786941114","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781786941114.jpg?v=1754126734","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/locating-guyane-9781786941114","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}