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- Title
Indigeneity and the Indo-Caribbean in Cyril Dabydeen's Dark Swirl.
- Authors
KHAN, ALIYAH
- Abstract
An essay is presented which shows that postcolonial national power is triangulated and transferred among indigenous peoples, Afro-Guyanese, and Indo-Guyanese through the appropriation of indigenous myth and the syncretism of religious belief. It analyzes Indo-Guyanese Canadian writer Cyril Dabydeen's novel "Dark Swirl," which describes the cultural encounter among a rural Indo-Guyanese family, the indigenous reptilian water spirit the massacouraman, and a white British naturalist.
- Subjects
GUYANA; AFRICA; INDIGENOUS ethnic identity; POSTCOLONIAL analysis; INDIGENOUS peoples; DARK Swirl (Book); POSTCOLONIAL theology; GUYANESE history, 1966-; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en Littérature Canadienne, 2015, Vol 40, Issue 1, p205
- ISSN
0380-6995
- Publication type
Essay