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French Guiana (France)

French Guiana (France) All works

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  • EssayL'Algérie pour les AlgériensIsmaÿl Urbain · 1861not translated into EnglishAn 1861 plea for an Algeria associated with France, by a Saint-Simonian interpreter born in French Guiana.Literature
  • NovelAtipaAlfred Parépou · 1885not translated into EnglishGuiana passes from the plantation to gold and the penal colony, while the school speaks only French to a Creole-speaking people.Literature
  • NovelBatouala: A True Black NovelBatouala, véritable roman nègreRené Maran · 1921In Ubangi-Shari, a French colony in central Africa, forced labour and taxation are emptying the villages.Literature
  • PoetryPigmentsLéon-Gontran Damas · 1937In Paris, Black students from the colonies seek a poetry that refuses assimilation.Literature
  • TaleLégendes et contes folkloriques de GuyaneMichel Lohier · 1960not translated into EnglishDevils, spirits and cunning beasts in the Creole tales of French Guiana, collected by a schoolteacher turned journalist.Literature
  • NovelThe BastardsLes BâtardsBertène Juminer · 1961Students from the old colonies learn in Paris that they are expected to forget where they come from.Literature
  • NovelLe Nègre du gouverneurSerge Patient · 1972not translated into EnglishA Guianese slave promoted to maroon-hunter, or how to rise without disowning one's people, in a colonial chronicle.Literature