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Creole indigeneity : between myth and nation in the Caribbean /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jackson, Shona N.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2012]
Series:First peoples (2010)
Subjects:
Creoles > Race identity > Guyana.
Creoles > Guyana > Social conditions.
Indigenous peoples > Guyana.
Myth > Social aspects > Guyana.
Nationalism > Social aspects > Guyana.
Guyana > Colonial influence.
Guyana > Race relations.
Myth > Social aspects > Caribbean Area.
Nationalism > Social aspects > Caribbean Area.
Caribbean Area > Colonial influence.
Table of 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.