ISBN:
9780816677757
,
9780816677764
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 310 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
First peoples : new directions in indigenous studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Creole Indigeneity
DDC:
305.8009881
Keywords:
Myth Social aspects
;
Nationalism Social aspects
;
Myth Social aspects
;
Nationalism Social aspects
;
Creoles Social conditions
;
Indigenous peoples
;
Creoles Race identity
;
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
;
Creoles ; Guyana ; Social conditions
;
Creoles ; Race identity ; Guyana
;
Indigenous peoples ; Guyana
;
Myth ; Social aspects ; Caribbean Area
;
Myth ; Social aspects ; Guyana
;
Nationalism ; Social aspects ; Caribbean Area
;
Nationalism ; Social aspects ; Guyana
;
Electronic books
;
Guyana Colonial influence
;
Guyana Race relations
;
Caribbean Area Colonial influence
Abstract:
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 1950s to the present, Jackson explores aboriginal and Creole identities in Guyanese society. Through government documents, in
Description / Table of Contents:
Creole IndigeneityLabor 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816677757.001.0001
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