About the Author

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface: A Pointer Broom Approach vii
4. Introduction: Everywhere and Nowhere: A Sweeping Vision of/from Guyana 1
5. 1 From Full Negro to Dougla Girl “All ah You in Here Is Black People!” 37
6. 2 Rihanna’s Guyanese Pattacake and the Homewrecking State in Barbados 89
7. 3 Transplanted Beaches and Silica Cities: Sand, Erasure, and Erosion in the Age of the Anthropocene 119
8. 4 Recasting El Dorado: Representing Oil, Politics, and Ethnic Conflict 149
9. Coda: The Road Ahead 175
10. Acknowledgments 183
11. Notes 189
12. Bibliography 207
13. Index 223
14. About the Author 237