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Jamaican Nationalism, Queer Intimacies, and the Disjunctures of the Chinese Diaspora: Patricia Powell's The Pagoda
- Author(s):
- Jason Frydman (see profile)
- Date:
- 2011
- Group(s):
- CLCS Caribbean
- Subject(s):
- American literature, Twentieth century, Asian Americans--Study and teaching, Asian diaspora, Caribbean literature, Emigration and immigration, Chinese
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Jamaica, Lisa Lowe, Maxine Hong Kingston, Patricia Powell, 20th-century American literature, Asian-American studies, Chinese immigration
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/h7er-eb27
- Abstract:
- Attentive to the disjunctures of the Chinese diaspora in the Americas, Patricia Powell's "The Pagoda" intertextually re-territorializes the tropes of Asian American literature and cultural criticism in a Jamaican context in order to fashion a queer utopian historical romance. The novel portrays a simultaneously pluralist and creolizing anticolonial nationalism emerging from queer intimacies that cut across the racial divisions of late nineteenth-century Jamaica. Not only does this displace the masculinist labor movements of the 1930s as the originary moment of anticolonial Jamaican nationalism, but "The Pagoda" also offers a Caribbean alternative to US-based models of ethnic literature, limning distinctive histories of racialization, creolization, and pluralism.
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- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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