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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Shona N.

Series:

First peoples.

First peoples : new directions in indigenous studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creoles--Race identity--Guyana.

Creoles.

Creoles--Guyana--Social conditions.

Indigenous peoples--Guyana.

Indigenous peoples.

Myth--Social aspects--Guyana.

Myth.

Nationalism--Social aspects--Guyana.

Nationalism.

Myth--Social aspects--Caribbean Area.

Nationalism--Social aspects--Caribbean Area.

Guyana--Colonial influence.

Guyana.

Guyana--Race relations.

Caribbean Area--Colonial influence.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4823-2

0-8166-8195-3

OCLC:

829461158