The Commission Culture is organising a monthly literary event: the Rencontres Littéraires. This new edition will take place on Tuesday 15 November 2022 from 4pm to 6pm at the University Library. Come and listen to Hélène FERRARINI who will present her book " Allons enfants de la Guyane. Educating, evangelising and colonising Amerindians in the Republic" .
Summary of the book
In French Guiana, for decades - and still today in Saint-Georges-de-l'Oyapock - children from different indigenous communities grew up in "Indian homes", boarding schools run by Catholic congregations. The policy of forced assimilation thus pursued by the French state with the support of the clergy attests to the colonial persistence of this young overseas department. In an in-depth investigation combining archives and personal accounts, Hélène Ferrarini lifts the veil on a hitherto ignored history in which the words of the former boarders are finally finding a place.
"Educating, evangelising and colonising Amerindians in the Republic
Hélène FERRARINI
About the author
Hélène Ferrarini is a freelance journalist. She studied history at Sciences Po Paris and journalism in New Delhi, India. She has published numerous reports in Liberation, the Revue dessinée, Reporterre, Africultures, Slate.fr. She reports and investigates for La Revue dessinée, Le Monde Diplomatique, RFI, Reporterre, Guyaweb, etc. For several years now, she has been working mainly in the three French Guianas.
His first book, Little warrior for peace, the Amerindian struggles told to young people (and anyone else who's curious)is a book of interviews with indigenous activist Alexis Tiouka. In 2018, she wrote the fictional comic strip Eldorado, published by Futuropolis.
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