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An Edible Sea: Imperialism and History An Edible Sea: Imperialism and History
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Modernism, Nationalism, and Subjectivity Modernism, Nationalism, and Subjectivity
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The Wilson Harris Effect: Postcoloniality and Indigenous Aesthetics The Wilson Harris Effect: Postcoloniality and Indigenous Aesthetics
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Works Cited Works Cited
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34 The Re/Presentation of the Indigenous Caribbean in Literature
Get accessBorn in Guyana, Shona N. Jackson is an associate professor of English at Texas A&M University where she teaches courses in Caribbean and Black Diaspora Studies and Postcolonial theory. She received her PhD from the interdisciplinary Program in Modern Thought & Literature at Stanford in 2005. She is founding co-editor of the book series in Caribbean Studies at University Press of Mississippi, a member of the editorial boards of Voces del Caribe, Praxis and Wadabagei and an advisory and contributing editor for Callaloo. Her publications include a co-edited issue of Callaloo and essays in Small Axe and the collection Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture. Her book, Creole Indigeneity: Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in October 2012.
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Published:03 March 2014
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Abstract
This chapter examines three periods in the representation of Indigenous peoples in Caribbean literature from the early until the latter half of the twentieth century. These periods are the imperial/colonial encounter, the nationalist struggle and the emergence of a “native” literary subjectivity, and finally a postcolonial/postmodern period. The chapter tracks the translation of the Indigenous literary presence in the Caribbean as an aesthetic of disappearance and recrudescence that moves through imperial to postcolonial writing. By tracing the production and reproduction of this aesthetic presence, the chapter elucidates the work the aesthetic does for Creole history, subjectivity, and ontology.
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