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Fractal Repair

Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica

March 22, 2024 | Trade paperback
ISBN: 9781478030225
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Description

In Fractal Repair, Matthew Chin investigates queerness in Jamaica from early colonial occupation to the present, critically responding to the island's global reputation for extreme homophobia and anti-queer violence. Chin advances a theory and method of queer fractals to bring together genealogies of queer and Caribbean formation. Fractals--a kind of geometry in which patterns repeat but never exactly in the same way--make visible shifting accounts of Caribbean queerness in terms of race, gender, and sexual alterity. Drawing on this fractal orientation, Chin assembles and analyzes multigenre archives, ranging from mid-twentieth-century social science studies of the Caribbean to Jamaica's National Dance Theatre Company to HIV/AIDS organizations, to write reparative histories of queerness. Chin's proposal of a fractal politics of repair invests in the horizon of difference that repetition materializes, and it extends reparations discourses intent on overcoming the past and calculating economic compensation for survivors of violence.
 

About this Author

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

ISBN: 9781478030225
Format: Trade paperback
Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
Pages: 240
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: 2024-03-22

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."

"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."

"Fractal Repair provides a timely interventionist history of Jamaica through a Queer framework and expands scholarship on how we can understand the nation as a sociopolitical space informed by those who are deemed worthy of belonging."

"Chin... employs a provocative, theoretical framework grounded in mathematics, in particular fractal geometry, a field concerned with identifying repeating patterns that occur at irregular intervals. This unique historical approach allows Chin to untangle historical constructs of queerness, as well as expose colonial legacies that have shaped normative concepts of sexuality and gender in Jamaica. . . . Highly recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals."

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