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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shona Jackson’s Creole Indigeneity breaks open a long-standing conundrum on the relationship between diasporan blacks and the modes of indigeneity with which they are both intersected with and/or located as oppositional to by dominant discourses in the West. Simply put, it is must-reading for all scholars of blackness and the African Diaspora because she does indeed ‘illuminate those interwoven histories beneath the surface’ that inform our broad and deeply complex ancestries."—Michelle M. Wright, Northwestern University
"The incorporation of a literary studies approach within historical and political subjectives and policy and legislation analysis provides an interesting methodological example for weaving different academic perspectives together, which may well encourage others to follow suit."—New West Indian Guide
"Contrasting the South American plantation coast of Guyana with the more indigenous interior, Jackson points the Caribbean’s cultural and ideological displacement of the actual indigenous, to the tropical interiors of American space, to make room for the claims, both figural and literal, ideological and territorial, of the inhabitants of the 'Creole’ coast'"—American Quarterly
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Creole Indigeneity
2. Labor for Being: Making Caliban Work
3. "God’s Golden City": Myth, Paradox, and the Propter Nos
4. From Myth to Market: Burnham’s Co-operative Republic
5. The Baptism of Soil: Indian Belonging in Guyana
Conclusion: Beyond Caliban, or the "Third Space" of Labor and Indigeneity
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
