ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the concept of Indigeneity in Caribbean and Black British writing from the 1940s to the present day. To illustrate this, the chapter focuses on how two popular magazines, Bim (1942–) and Kyk-Over-Al (1945–), contributed to evolving ideas of Indigeneity and what it meant to be Indigenous. The chapter examines the complicated dynamics in which discussions about Indigeneity take place in Bim and Kyk-Over-Al, and considers how, for both periodicals, Indigeneity is a term that possesses varying definitions and contexts. This task involves larger stakes at play: in an era in which debates about the relationship between modernism and postcolonial writing continue to evolve—and often in divergent directions—looking at magazines like Bim and Kyk-Over-Al demonstrates the significance of Indigeneity in these debates and forces us to think about its meaning not just as a key term but as a nomenclature that functioned in different ways and determined interrelationships between writers living in the Caribbean and other countries at a time when debates about the postcolonial were just emerging.
