'The book is a fascinating challenge to historiographies of Guyane as it peels off the layers of its changing relationships with France and other places in the world, detangles its history of contact, reveals the actors involved in its many transitions from place of forced exile to high-tech center, highlights the role its penal past has played in making it "periphery", and explains what being Guyanais today entails in a globalized world of flows where local Kreyol traditions and Maroon narratives get reinvented and shaped in the context of cultural commercialism and global art markets.'
Helene B. Ducros, Europe Now Journal 'This
valuable interdisciplinary volume offers wide-ranging essays that examine
stereotypes about France's Amazonian outpost that go beyond simple images of
the country as a 'green hell.'



Robert Aldrich, French History 'Overall, with Locating
Guyana Wood and MacLeod have achieved a milestone in the study of French
Guyana.'

Fabio Santos, PERIPHERIE 'English-language works on Guyane are comparatively few and far between, and Locating Guyane rectifies a lacuna in the wider scholarship by exploring what makes it distinct from its fellow "old colonies" of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Reunion. Given the volume's interdisciplinarity and the essays' breadth, the short volume speaks to a wide range of academic disciplines, and consequently it serves as an excellent scholarly primer on Guyane, its colonial legacy, and its place in an increasingly global, modern world.'
Christopher M. Church, H-France Review