Locating Guyane

Dr Catriona MacLeod is Lecturer in French Studies at the University of London Institute in Paris (ULIP). Dr Sarah Wood is Visiting Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Connecticut.

• IntroductionRichard Price, ‘The Oldest Daughter of Overseas France’Kari Evanson, ‘Grand Reporters in Guyane: Bringing the Exotic Back Home’Kathleen Gyssels, ‘Kor and Karnival, the carnal road of Léon-Gontran Damas: “Evidence of Things not Seen”’Silvia Espelt Bombín, ‘Frontier Politics: French, Portuguese and Amerindian Alliances between the Amazon and Cayenne, 1680–1697’Jonna Yarrington, ‘Producing the periphery’Edenz Maurice, ‘A school in Boniville Political skills and “Primitives’ in French Guiana (1930-1969)’Sarah Wood, ‘Reclaiming Félix Éboué: Departmentalisation and politics of commemoration in Guyane, 1944-2012’Antonia Cristinoi and François Nemo, ‘Palikur, a language between two worlds’Sally Price, ‘Maroon Art in Guyane: New Forms, New Discourses’Catriona MacLeod: ‘Performing and Parading Gender in Guyane’s Carnival’Bill Marshall, ‘Equality and Difference: Queering Guyane?’Conclusion: remaking Guyane?

'English-language works on Guyane are comparatively few and far between, and Locating Guyane rectifies 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.' Christopher M. Church, H-France Review