Shona N Jackson
Biographic Data
| ID | 456535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shona N Jackson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shona N |
| FAMILY NAME | Jackson |
| SIGNATURE | JACKSON S N |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Killing Us Softly
Research Article| September 01 2021 Killing Us Softly: Conversion and the Arc of Black Death in the Americas Shona N. Jackson Shona N. Jackson Shona N. Jackson is from Guyana, South America, and is associate professor in the Department of English at Texas A&M University, College Station. She is the author of Creole Indigeneity: Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean (2012). She works at the intersection of black and Indigenous studies. Search f…
Movement and Time: A Diasporic Response to Grounded Light
Movement and Time: A Diasporic Response to Grounded Light Shona N. Jackson (bio) En nuestras cosmovisiones, somos seres surgidos de la tierra, el agua, y el maiz. —Berta Cáceras, 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize Christina Sharpe situates her most recent book in terms of the lived experiences of her family with death. Much of the beginning of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being reads as a deliberate archaeology of interment. This propels Sharpe, d…
Risk, Blackness, and Postcolonial Studies: An Introduction
The critical arguments against postcolonial studies are well rehearsed and have led to a double approach to the field in academia. Some have advocated, for instance, for the rejection of postcolonial studies and its incursion into disciplines created out of the late-twentieth-century protest movements that spawned Black, Indigenous, and Ethnic Studies programs across the United States. These programs are in fact indebted to the global change wrou…
Creole Indigeneity: Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean
During the colonial period in Guyana, the country’s coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. This book investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as Guyana’s new natives, displacing indigenous peoples in the Caribbean through an extension of colonial attitudes and policies. Looking particularly at the nation’s politically fraught decades from the 1950s to the present, the …
Creole Indigeneity: Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean
During the colonial period in Guyana, the country’s coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as Guyana’s new natives, displacing indigenous peoples in the Caribbean through an extension of colonial attitudes and policies
Keynote Introduction for Robert Farris Thompson
Keynote Introduction for Robert Farris Thompson Shona N. Jackson (bio) It is my pleasure this evening to introduce our closing Keynote speaker, Robert Farris Thompson. But I have to begin by asking: “Who is Robert Farris Thompson?” and “Why do you need to know this?” That is actually how the foreword to his book Tango: The Art History of Love begins. Cornel West has described him as “one of the greatest pioneers in the study of Afro-American cult…
"The Economy of Babel or "Can I Buy a Vowel
What follows is the moderately revised text of a paper first delivered as the opening presentation for the conversation between writers and critics at “Literature, Culture, and Critique: a Callaloo Retreat” in New Orleans on March 6, 2008
Not Naming the Race: An Interview with Charles Henry Rowell
Shona N. Jackson interviewed Charles Henry Rowell. The interview was conducted on June 18, 2006 in Edge, TX, at the Dusty Creek Ranch
Perfecting Habit: Guyana Callaloo and the Migration of "Poor People's Food," An Interview with Evelyn London
Perfecting Habit:Guyana Callaloo and the Migration of "Poor People's Food" An Interview with Evelyn London Shona N. Jackson (bio) and Evelyn London (bio) This interview was conducted July 27, 2006, via telephone between College Station, Texas, and Bloomfield, New Jersey. JACKSON: I'll start with this "Callaloo Jumble" recipe in the Guyana cookbook.1 I remember that on Fridays, you used to make hamburgers for the kids and for the adults, you made …
What is This Thing Called Callaloo: An Introduction
After thirty years and 106 issues, the question that lingers for many who encounter Callaloo, and which the journal has never sought to answer beyond printing a recipe and a brief reflection in its inaugural issue, is: what is it? To what does callaloo refer? Simply, not a thing. Begun in 1976, the journal itself is the record of a three-decades-long process of making concrete a sound, to feed an aesthetic. What lies behind that sound are metapho…
Love, Loss, and the "Art" of Making Gumbo: An Interview with Eileen Julien
Shona N. Jackson interviewed Eileen Julien. The interview was conducted by phone on Wednesday, May 3, 2006
An Interview with Leila H. Taylor
Shona N. Jackson interviewed Leila H. Taylor. The interview was conducted August 8, 2006 via telephone between College Station, TX and Baton Rouge, LA
Guyana, Cuba, Venezuela and the "Routes" to Cultural Reconciliation between Latin America and the Caribbean
Research Article| February 01 2006 Guyana, Cuba, Venezuela and the "Routes" to Cultural Reconciliation between Latin America and the Caribbean Shona N. Jackson Shona N. Jackson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 28–58. https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-28 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools …
The Recalcitrant Muse: Race, Sex and Historical Tension in the Search for the West Indian (Trans)subject
This paper explores the critical tensions surrounding the figure of “Mariella” in Wilson Harris's Palace of the Peacock (later referred to as Palace). It examines the novel in its critical life by looking at the collective body ofliterary criticism on this text by Michael Gilkes, Hena Maes-Jelenik, and Sandra Drake. It makes two major arguments, the first methodological and the second textual. First, it argues that problems which arise in Harris'…
Guyana, Cuba, Venezuela and the "Routes" to Cultural Reconciliation between Latin America and the Caribbean
Research Article| February 01 2006 Guyana, Cuba, Venezuela and the "Routes" to Cultural Reconciliation between Latin America and the Caribbean Shona N. Jackson Shona N. Jackson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 28–58. https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-28 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools …
Movement and Time: A Diasporic Response to Grounded Light
Movement and Time: A Diasporic Response to Grounded Light Shona N. Jackson (bio) En nuestras cosmovisiones, somos seres surgidos de la tierra, el agua, y el maiz. —Berta Cáceras, 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize Christina Sharpe situates her most recent book in terms of the lived experiences of her family with death. Much of the beginning of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being reads as a deliberate archaeology of interment. This propels Sharpe, d…
Risk, Blackness, and Postcolonial Studies: An Introduction
The critical arguments against postcolonial studies are well rehearsed and have led to a double approach to the field in academia. Some have advocated, for instance, for the rejection of postcolonial studies and its incursion into disciplines created out of the late-twentieth-century protest movements that spawned Black, Indigenous, and Ethnic Studies programs across the United States. These programs are in fact indebted to the global change wrou…
The Recalcitrant Muse: Race, Sex and Historical Tension in the Search for the West Indian (Trans)subject
This paper explores the critical tensions surrounding the figure of “Mariella” in Wilson Harris's Palace of the Peacock (later referred to as Palace). It examines the novel in its critical life by looking at the collective body ofliterary criticism on this text by Michael Gilkes, Hena Maes-Jelenik, and Sandra Drake. It makes two major arguments, the first methodological and the second textual. First, it argues that problems which arise in Harris'…
Guyana, Cuba, Venezuela and the "Routes" to Cultural Reconciliation between Latin America and the Caribbean
Research Article| February 01 2006 Guyana, Cuba, Venezuela and the "Routes" to Cultural Reconciliation between Latin America and the Caribbean Shona N. Jackson Shona N. Jackson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 28–58. https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-28 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools …
Not Naming the Race: An Interview with Charles Henry Rowell
Shona N. Jackson interviewed Charles Henry Rowell. The interview was conducted on June 18, 2006 in Edge, TX, at the Dusty Creek Ranch
Perfecting Habit: Guyana Callaloo and the Migration of "Poor People's Food," An Interview with Evelyn London
Perfecting Habit:Guyana Callaloo and the Migration of "Poor People's Food" An Interview with Evelyn London Shona N. Jackson (bio) and Evelyn London (bio) This interview was conducted July 27, 2006, via telephone between College Station, Texas, and Bloomfield, New Jersey. JACKSON: I'll start with this "Callaloo Jumble" recipe in the Guyana cookbook.1 I remember that on Fridays, you used to make hamburgers for the kids and for the adults, you made …
What is This Thing Called Callaloo: An Introduction
After thirty years and 106 issues, the question that lingers for many who encounter Callaloo, and which the journal has never sought to answer beyond printing a recipe and a brief reflection in its inaugural issue, is: what is it? To what does callaloo refer? Simply, not a thing. Begun in 1976, the journal itself is the record of a three-decades-long process of making concrete a sound, to feed an aesthetic. What lies behind that sound are metapho…
Love, Loss, and the "Art" of Making Gumbo: An Interview with Eileen Julien
Shona N. Jackson interviewed Eileen Julien. The interview was conducted by phone on Wednesday, May 3, 2006
An Interview with Leila H. Taylor
Shona N. Jackson interviewed Leila H. Taylor. The interview was conducted August 8, 2006 via telephone between College Station, TX and Baton Rouge, LA
"The Economy of Babel or "Can I Buy a Vowel
What follows is the moderately revised text of a paper first delivered as the opening presentation for the conversation between writers and critics at “Literature, Culture, and Critique: a Callaloo Retreat” in New Orleans on March 6, 2008
Creole Indigeneity: Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean
During the colonial period in Guyana, the country’s coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. This book investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as Guyana’s new natives, displacing indigenous peoples in the Caribbean through an extension of colonial attitudes and policies. Looking particularly at the nation’s politically fraught decades from the 1950s to the present, the …
Creole Indigeneity: Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean
During the colonial period in Guyana, the country’s coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as Guyana’s new natives, displacing indigenous peoples in the Caribbean through an extension of colonial attitudes and policies
Keynote Introduction for Robert Farris Thompson
Keynote Introduction for Robert Farris Thompson Shona N. Jackson (bio) It is my pleasure this evening to introduce our closing Keynote speaker, Robert Farris Thompson. But I have to begin by asking: “Who is Robert Farris Thompson?” and “Why do you need to know this?” That is actually how the foreword to his book Tango: The Art History of Love begins. Cornel West has described him as “one of the greatest pioneers in the study of Afro-American cult…
Risk, Blackness, and Postcolonial Studies: An Introduction
The critical arguments against postcolonial studies are well rehearsed and have led to a double approach to the field in academia. Some have advocated, for instance, for the rejection of postcolonial studies and its incursion into disciplines created out of the late-twentieth-century protest movements that spawned Black, Indigenous, and Ethnic Studies programs across the United States. These programs are in fact indebted to the global change wrou…
Movement and Time: A Diasporic Response to Grounded Light
Movement and Time: A Diasporic Response to Grounded Light Shona N. Jackson (bio) En nuestras cosmovisiones, somos seres surgidos de la tierra, el agua, y el maiz. —Berta Cáceras, 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize Christina Sharpe situates her most recent book in terms of the lived experiences of her family with death. Much of the beginning of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being reads as a deliberate archaeology of interment. This propels Sharpe, d…
Killing Us Softly
Research Article| September 01 2021 Killing Us Softly: Conversion and the Arc of Black Death in the Americas Shona N. Jackson Shona N. Jackson Shona N. Jackson is from Guyana, South America, and is associate professor in the Department of English at Texas A&M University, College Station. She is the author of Creole Indigeneity: Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean (2012). She works at the intersection of black and Indigenous studies. Search f…
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