316 pages, ISBN 978-2-36781-291-5, Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
French Guyane, Guyana and Suriname are not often focused on. Sometimes French Guyane is believed to be an island, and one often wonders where Guyana is situated, or Suriname. This collection of essays aims to increase the visibility of the Guyanas and more particularly of the three countries mentioned above. It also means to contribute to scholarship already published and share the knowledge across various disciplinary fields. It will question the traditional divide between disciplines as the best way to approach such complex territories that contain many geographies, histories, languages and cultures. Moving away from simplistic and binary perspectives, the contributors of the volume address these questions that revisit colonial and postcolonial identities, and the porosity between their borders. What can the Guyanas do for us and what can we do for them? Creative and academic writers such as Gaiutra Bahadur, Sonja Boon, Janette Bulkan, Juanita Cox, Tim Cribb, Cyril Dabydeen, Charles Forsdick, Lisa Katharina Grund, Kathleen Gyssels, Natalie Hopkinson, Ateeka Khan, Sinah Kloß, Michael Mitchell, Gabriel Cambraia Neiva, Clem Seecharan, Janice Lowe Shinebourne, explore their Guyanas and others’.
Keywords: Ecotones, indentured labour, French Guyane, Guyana, Suriname, migrations
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Lawrence Aje, Thomas Lacroix and Judith Misrahi-Barak: Singular and Multiple: the Guyanas
Remembering Rose Hall and Beyond
Gaiutra Bahadur: The Rose Hall Uprising
Clem Seecharan: A New World for Kaila
Janice Lowe Shinebourne: Rose Hall Cyril Dabydeen: Home and Far Away: Remembering Rose Hall Sugar Plantation
Emancipating Memory
Sonja Boon: Telling Stories with Gold
Charles Forsdick: ‘Bagne pas mort’: exploring penal heritage in French Guiana
Kathleen Gyssels: World War II in Guianese and Caribbean Poetry: Martin Carter, Leon Damas, Kamau Brathwaite
Mapping and Charting the 3 Guyana’s
Janette Bulkan: Settling Indigenous Rights and Building a Social Contract in the circum-Caribbean territories of Belize, Guyana and Suriname
Ateeka Khan: Cultural Resistance: East Indian Migrants and the Formation of Ethnic Identities in British Guiana
Natalie Hopkinson: Beyond ‘Cats and Dogs’: A Geopolitical and Cultural Analysis of Guyana’s Mashramani Independence Celebration
Lisa Katharina Grund: Making oneself at Home: The Grammar of Travelling among the Makushi in the Pakaraima Mountains, Guyana
Sinah Kloß: Giving to Mother Ganga: Gift Exchange, Social Hierarchy and the Notion of Pollution in Transnational Guyanese Hindu Communities
Writing and Imagining the 3 Guyanas
Tim Cribb: Re-writing Man in the Guyanas
Michael Mitchell: Wilson Harris: Magus of the Interior
Gabriel Cambria Neiva: The Journey to the Source of Imagination: A Reading of The Laughter of Wapishana by Wilson Harris
Juanita Cox Westmaas: Buried in the Landscape: Edgar Mittelholzer’s Creative Gene(sis)/Geni(us), and Revolting Subtexts
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