Between Censorship and Amnesia: The End of The Penal Colony in French Guiana
The article focuses on the censorship of Léon-Gontran Damas’s 1937 Retour de Guyane, a searing critique of French administration of this South American colony. The colonial authorities sought to ban Damas’s book, allegedly purchasing and burning 1,000 copies of it (of a print-run, at the author’s ow...
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| Dans: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/transtexts, |
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Transtext(e)s Transcultures
2020
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |