Creole Indigeneity: Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean PDF
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00front_Layout 1 09/10/2012 1:34 PM Page i creole indigeneity 00front_Layout 1 09/10/2012 1:34 PM Page ii This page intentionally left blank 00front_Layout 1 09/10/2012 1:34 PM Page iii Creole Indigeneity Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean shona n. jackson University of Minnesota Press • Minneapolis London Publication of this book was made possible, in part, with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Epigraph “Birds” was originally published in A Tempest by Aimé Césaire, translated by Richard Miller. Copyright by Aimé Césaire. Copyright English translation , . Published by Theatre Communications Group. Used by permission of Theatre Communications Group. Epigraph “Natural Ways” was originally published by The Hamburgh Register, . Copyright by Basil Rodrigues. Reprinted by permission of Basil Rodrigues. Portions of chapter were previously published as “Subjection and Resistance in the Transformation of Guyana’s Mytho-colonial Landscape,” in Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture,ed. Elizabeth DeLoughrey et al., – (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, ). Portions of chapter were previously published as “Guyana, Cuba, Venezuela, and the ‘Routes’ to Cultural Reconciliation between Latin America and the Caribbean,” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (): –. Portions of the Introduction and chapter were previously published as “On the ‘Threshold of Nationhood’: The Politics of Language and the Contemporary Crisis in Guyanese National Identification,” in Ethnicity, Class, and Nationalism: Caribbean and Extra Caribbean Dimensions,ed. Anton Allahar, – Lanham, Md. Lexington Books, . Every effort was made to obtain permission to reproduce material used in this book. If any proper acknowledgment has not been made, we encourage copyright holders to notify us. Copyright by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press Third Avenue South, Suite Minneapolis, MN - http://www.upress.umn.edu isbn---- The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 00front_Layout 1 09/10/2012 1:34 PM Page v For Celestine Williams, Joycelyn Squires, Jennifer Jackson, and Ayira 00front_Layout 1 09/10/2012 1:34 PM Page vi This page intentionally left blank 00front_Layout 1 09/10/2012 1:34 PM Page vii exile thus goes into the feeder made of stars bearing clumsy grains to the birds born of time . . . —Aimé Césaire, “Birds” Out for a long walk along the path I wandered. What I once took for granted now I see. Birds sang to me of the joy of being free as they, the hawk and kiskidee. Acushi ants and wasps worked united; laden jamoon branches giving alms to birds and flies and worms; dark shadows, dreaded hawk flashes by. Birds echo a warning cry, “Escape your death—fly, now fly!” —Basil Rodrigues, “Natural Ways” 00front_Layout 1 09/10/2012 1:34 PM Page viii This page intentionally left blank 00front_Layout 1 09/10/2012 1:34 PM Page ix Contents Preface / xi Introduction / 1 1 Creole Indigeneity / 41 2 Labor forBeing: Making Caliban Work / 75 3 4 “God’s Golden City”: Myth, Paradox, and the Propter Nos / 111 5 From Myth to Market: Burnham’s Co-operative Republic / 145 The Baptism of Soil: Indian Belonging in Guyana / 181 conclusion: Beyond Caliban, or the “Third Space” of Labor and Indigeneity / 211 Acknowledgments / 235 Notes / 239 Bibliography / 267 Index / 285
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