“Returns to a Native Land?’ Indigeneity and Decolonisation in the Anglophone Caribbean” in Small Axe, 41, 108-122

This essay explores the narrative of “aboriginal absence,” arguably the foundational colonial myth of Caribbean history. Since the early colonial period, the space of the “native” in the Caribbean context has been treated as a space left vacant for others to fill. Beginning in the 1960s, this narrative of aboriginal absence was widely incorporated across a range of genres into texts that constitute the anglophone Caribbean’s decolonizing intellectual tradition. 

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