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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463110303321

Autore

Jackson Shona N

Titolo

Creole indigeneity [[electronic resource] ] : between myth and nation in the Caribbean / / Shona N. Jackson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012

ISBN

1-4529-4823-2

0-8166-8195-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 p.)

Collana

First peoples : new directions in indigenous studies

Disciplina

305.8009881

Soggetti

Creoles - Race identity - Guyana

Creoles - Guyana - Social conditions

Indigenous peoples - Guyana

Myth - Social aspects - Guyana

Nationalism - Social aspects - Guyana

Myth - Social aspects - Caribbean Area

Nationalism - Social aspects - Caribbean Area

Electronic books.

Guyana Colonial influence

Guyana Race relations

Caribbean Area Colonial influence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Creole Indigeneity -- Labor for Being : Making Caliban Work -- "God's Golden City" : Myth, Paradox, and the Propter Nos -- From Myth to Market : Burnham's Co-operative Republic -- The Baptism of Soil : Indian Belonging in Guyana -- Conclusion: Beyond Caliban, or the "Third Space" of Labor and Indigeneity.

Sommario/riassunto

During the colonial period in Guyana, the country's coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as Guyana's new natives, displacing indigenous peoples in the Caribbean through an extension of colonial attitudes and policies.Looking particularly at the



nation's politically fraught decades from the 1950's to the present, Jackson explores aboriginal and Creole identities in Guyanese society. Through government documents