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The restless

Gerty Dambury

2018251 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2018
first published
  • 2018Feminist Press at The City University of New York · ENGISBN 9781936932078
  • 2018Feminist Press at the City University of New York · 251 pages · ENGISBN 9781558614468

"This lyrical novel, structured like a Creole quadrille, is a rich ethnography bearing witness to police violence in French Guadeloupe. Narrators both living and dead recount the racial and class stratification that led to a protest-turned-massacre. Dambury's English debut is a vibrant memorial to a largely forgotten atrocity, coinciding with the government's declassification of documents pertaining to the incident"--

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