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Autore |
Jackson Shona N |
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Titolo |
Creole indigeneity [[electronic resource] ] : between myth and nation in the Caribbean / / Shona N. Jackson |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012 |
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1-4529-4823-2 |
0-8166-8195-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (324 p.) |
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Collana |
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First peoples : new directions in indigenous studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Guyana Colonial influence |
Guyana Race relations |
Caribbean Area Colonial influence |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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