Beyond Papillon : The French Overseas Penal Colonies, 1854-1952

Name: Beyond Papillon
Brand: University of Nebraska Press
SKU: 9780803217980
Price: 2750 KES
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ISBN: 9780803217980

by Stephen A. Toth

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization

ISBN-10 0803217986

ISBN-13 9780803217980

Publisher University of Nebraska Press

Imprint University of Nebraska Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 1st, 2008

Print length 240 Pages

Weight 370 grams

Dimensions 22.90 x 15.20 x 1.80 cms

Product Classification: France Regional studies Regional / International studies European history European history

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Through an analysis of criminal case files, administrative records, and prisoner biographies, this book reconstructs life in the penal colonies and examines how the social sciences, tropical medicine, and sensational journalism evaluated and exploited the inmates' experiences.

For French criminologists and colonialists of the mid-nineteenth century, the penal colonies of Guiana and New Caledonia seemed to satisfy two needs, namely, to incarcerate a growing number of criminals and to supply manpower for these developing colonies. But were these two goals not contradictory? Was the primary purpose of the penal colonies to punish or to colonize? In the prisons, inmates found means of subversion, guards resisted militaristic discipline, and camp commanders fought physicians for authority. Back in the metropole, journalistic exposés catered to the public''s fascination with the penal colonies'' horror and exoticism.

An understanding of modern France is not complete without an examination of this institution, which existed for more than a century and imprisoned more than one hundred thousand people. Stephen A. Toth invites readers to experience the prisons firsthand. Through a careful analysis of criminal case files, administrative records, and prisoner biographies, Toth reconstructs life in the penal colonies and examines how the social sciences, tropical medicine, and sensational journalism evaluated and exploited the inmates'' experiences. In exploring the disjuncture between the real and the imagined, he moves beyond mythic characterizations of the penal colonies to reveal how power, discipline, and punishment were construed and enforced in these prison outposts.

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