Monsters and Revolutionaries: Colonial Family Romance and MetissageIn Monsters and Revolutionaries Fran oise Verg s analyzes the complex relationship between the colonizer and colonized on the Indian Ocean island of R union. Through novels, iconography, and texts from various disciplines including law, medicine, and psychology, Verg s constructs a political and cultural history of the island's relations with France. Woven throughout is Verg s's own family history, which is intimately tied to the history of R union