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Creole as settlers: Aliyah Khan, ‘Indigeneity and the Indo-Caribbean in Cyril Dabydeen’s Dark Swirl’, Studies in Canadian Literature, 2019

02Aug19

Excerpt: Contemporary Afro- and Indo-Guyanese claims to sovereignty are based on [an] intimate historical labour relationship with the land, but that relationship is so recent in epochal time that the new Guyanese rulers must invoke continuity with the effaced indigenous “Amerindian” presence to establish legitimacy while simultaneously denying the indigenous inhabitants their land rights and very identities.


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