Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica

Matthew Chin

Published by Duke University Press 2024

Fractal Repair

Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica

Matthew Chin

In the series Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478059233

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About this book

Matthew Chin interrogates queerness in Jamaica from early colonial occupation to the present, critically responding to Jamaica’s reputation for homophobia and anti-queer violence.

Author / Editor information

Matthew Chin is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Virginia.

Reviews

“In Fractal Repair, Matthew Chin contributes significantly to our understanding of the history and the present of queer Jamaican life. Chin fills in the gaps on queer organizing in Jamaica, making use of the archive to piece together a different account of queer Jamaica than usually circulates. It is a lively read, deeply thoughtful, and does what it means to do: repair our understanding of queer Jamaican life and politics.”

-- Rinaldo Walcott, author of The Long Emancipation: Moving toward Black Freedom

“Matthew Chin’s Fractal Repair is an original and deeply compelling account of five hundred years of Jamaican intimacies. The fractal is a powerful organizing principle for the argument being made here, in which Chin shows how the colony has been central to the imperial rationalization of who counts as fully human and which intimacies are deemed to be socially valid. Archivally innovative, methodologically heterogeneous, and beautifully written, this book will make an important intervention.”

-- Faith Smith, author of Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean’s Non-sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction. Queer Fractals. Making Histories of Repair Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Queer Jamaica, 1494–1998 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Part I Archival Continuities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Part II Narrative Ruptures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Epilogue Fractal Futures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
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Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
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Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 248

eBook

Published: February 16, 2024
ISBN: 9781478059233