Beyond Papillon
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Beyond Papillon

The French Overseas Penal Colonies, 1854-1952

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Beyond Papillon

The French Overseas Penal Colonies, 1854-1952

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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 exposĂŠs 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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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2006
ISBN
9780803256422
Topic
History
Subtopic
French History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Illustrations
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. Back to the Future: France and the Penal Colonization
  6. 2. The Desire to Deport: The Recidivist of Fin de Siècle France
  7. 3. Life in the Penal Colony: The View from Above and Below
  8. 4. The Lords of Discipline: The French Penal Colony Service
  9. 5. The Battle over the Bagnard: Tropical Medicine in the Bagne
  10. 6. The Not-So-Fatal Shore: The Criminological Conception of the Fin de Siècle Bagne
  11. 7. The Bagne Obscura: Representational Crisis and the Twentieth Century
  12. Conclusion
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index