Banned Books and Counterfeit Notes - Reading and Writing Against the Penal Colony in French Guiana

This study examines how convicts sent to France's most notorious penal colony in French Guiana would use the colonial postal system to document and challenge lived experiences of transportation and forced labour.

About the author

Sophie Fuggle is Professor and Head of the Department of Languages, Cultures and Film at the University of Liverpool. She is author of France's Memorial Landscape: Views from Camp des Milles (Liverpool University Press, 2023) and co-editor of Framing the Penal Colony (Palgrave, 2023).

Product details

• Authors: Sophie Fuggle, Fuggle Sophie
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 03.03.2026
• EAN: 9781839992599
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-259-9
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 229 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Anthem Studies in Travel
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, HISTORY / Europe / France, HISTORY / Historical Geography, Colonialism & imperialism, History: specific events and topics, Crime and criminology, Cultural and media studies