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French and West Indian : Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana today / edited by Richard D.E. Burton and Fred Reno.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New World studies
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Relations.
- Civilization.
- West Indies, French--Civilization--20th century.
- West Indies, French.
- French Guiana--Civilization--20th century.
- French Guiana.
- Black people--Race identity--France.
- Black people.
- Black people--Race identity.
- France.
- West Indies, French--Relations--France.
- France--Relations--West Indies, French.
- French Guiana--Relations--France.
- France--Relations--French Guiana.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 202 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1995.
- Summary:
- In 1946, after more than three hundred years as French colonies, Martinique, Guadaloupe, and French Guiana were transformed into 'overseas departments' of France, equal and identical in theory to any other French department. This book assess the effects of almost half a century of political assimilation into France and asks to what extent the high standard of living enjoyed by French West Indians today has been offset by losses on the political, cultural, and psychological levels.
- Contents:
- The French West Indies à l'heure de l'Europe : an overview / Richard D.E. Burton and Fred Reno
- Constitutional and political change in the French Caribbean / Helen Hintjens
- Politics and society in Martinique / Fred Reno
- Guadeloupean consensus / Jean-Paul Eluther
- Society, culture and politics in French Guiana / Bridget Jones and Elie Stephenson
- Dialectics of descent and phenotypes in racial classification in Martinique / Michel Giraud
- The Declaration of the Treaty of Maastricht on the ultra-peripheral regions of the Community : an assessment / Emmanuel Jos
- The French Antilles and the wider Caribbean / Maurice Burac
- West Indians in France / Alain Anselin
- Women from Guadeloupe and Martinique / Arlette Gautier
- The idea of difference in contemporary French West Indian thought : Négritude, Antillanité, Créolité / Richard D. E. Burton
- French West Indian writing since 1970 / Beverley Ormerod.
- Notes:
- "Most of the chapters in this collection first appeared in French in Les Antilles-Guyane au rendez-vous de l'Europe ... published by Economica (Paris), 1994"--Acknowledgements.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-199) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813915651
- 081391566X
- OCLC:
- 31436319
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