Making Love (and Maps), Not War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3634626 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kedon Willis (0000-0002-0599-8389, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 96-119 |
| Publication date | 2023-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00219118-10119692 |
| OpenAlex | W4321509334 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
The 1918 anti-Chinese riots, which saw scores of Chinese-owned stores destroyed by largely Afro-descended peasant community members, are popularly remembered as one of the worst acts of interracial violence in Jamaica's postemancipation history. However, by examining the coverage of the riots by the Gleaner, Jamaica's newspaper of record, the author embarks on a mapping project to help show the network of nonconforming and anticolonial collaborations within these communities that existed in tandem with interracial tensions. The aim is to show how recapturing these productive collaborations from the past can animate intersectional forms of activism in the present. Furthermore, the article explores how Patricia Powell, as a queer Caribbean writer, uses her novel The Pagoda to perform the same work as the map in creating a counterhistory that gives voice to the anticolonial, nation-building strategies of subaltern groups lost in the gaps of official colonial archives
Ancient history · Colonialism · Media studies · Newspaper · Pagoda · Peasant · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sociology · Subaltern · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
Island Bodies
The Chinese Shop as Nation Theatre in West Indian Fiction
Old Boys and Badmen
The Rise and Fall of Railways in Jamaica, 1845–1975
World War I's “Exciting Effects”
The Anti-Chinese Riots of 1918 in Jamaica
They Never Looked Back
The Settlement of the Chinese in Jamaica
Identity in Transition
Time, Capitalism and Alienation
Venus in Two Acts
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |