Victorian Jamaica explores the extraordinary surviving archive of visual representation and material objects to provide a comprehensive account of Jamaican society during Queen Victoria's reign over the British Empire, from 1837 to 1901. In their analyses of material ranging from photographs of plantation laborers and landscape paintings to cricket team photographs, furniture, and architecture, as well as a wide range of texts, the contributors trace the relationship between black Jamaicans and colonial institutions; contextualize race within ritual and performance; and outline how material and visual culture helped shape the complex politics of colonial society. By narrating Victorian history from a Caribbean perspective, this richly illustrated volume—featuring 270 full-color images—offers a complex and nuanced portrait of Jamaica that expands our understanding of the wider history of the British Empire and Atlantic world during this period.
Contributors. Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Tim Barringer, Anthony Bogues, David Boxer, Patrick Bryan, Steeve O. Buckridge, Julian Cresser, John M. Cross, Petrina Dacres, Belinda Edmondson, Nadia Ellis, Gillian Forrester, Catherine Hall, Gad Heuman, Rivke Jaffe, O'Neil Lawrence, Erica Moiah James, Jan Marsh, Wayne Modest, Daniel T. Neely, Mark Nesbitt, Diana Paton, Elizabeth Pigou-Dennis, Veerle Poupeye, Jennifer Raab, James Robertson, Shani Roper, Faith Smith, Nicole Smythe-Johnson, Dianne M. Stewart, Krista A. Thompson
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Object Lessons
- Introduction to Object Lessons
- 1. The Cruickshank Lock, circa 1838
- 2. Table, circa 1830–1840
- 3. A Tread-Mill Scene in Jamaica, 1837
- 4. Sligoville with Mission Premises, 1843
- 5. A View of Coke Chapel from the Parade, circa 1846–1847
- 6. The Ordinance of Baptism, 1843
- 7. Kidd’s New Plan of the City of Kingston, Jamaica, 1854
- 8. Grave of Eighty Rebels near Morant Bay, Jamaica, 1865
- 9. Map Recording the Rebellion of 1865
- 10. Vale of St. Thomas, Jamaica, 1867
- 11. Newcastle, Jamaica, 1884
- 12. Opening the Railway Line at Porus, 1885
- 13. Day School Children, Jamaica, circa 1900
- 14. Wedding Group, Jamaica, circa 1900
- 15. Child’s Outdoor Cap. Lace-bark, circa 1850–1861
- 16. Grandmother on Mother’s Side, circa 1895–1905
- 17. Mary Seacole, 1871
- 18. Fatima, circa 1886
- 19. Selection of Jamaican Wood Samples Made for the 1891 Exhibition
- 20. Illustration of an Obeah Figure, 1893
- 21. Castleton Gardens, 1908
- 22. Queen Victoria, 1915
- Part I. Making Victorian Subjects
- Chapter 1. State Formation in Victorian Jamaica
- Chapter 2. Victorian Jamaica: The View from the Colonial Office
- Chapter 3. Liberalism, Colonial Power, Subjectivities, and the Technologies of Pastoral Coloniality: The Jamaican Case
- Chapter 4. Dirt, Disease, and Difference in Victorian Jamaica: The Politics of Sanitary Reform in the Milroy Report of 1852
- Chapter 5. Creating Good Colonial Citizens: Industrial Schools and Reformatories in Victorian Jamaica
- Chapter 6. Botany in Victorian Jamaica
- Chapter 7. Victorian Sport in Jamaica, 1863–1909
- Chapter 8. Rewriting the Past: Imperial Histories of the Antislavery Nation
- Part II. Visual and Material Cultures
- Chapter 9. Land, Labor, Landscape: Views of the Plantation in Victorian Jamaica
- Chapter 10. The Duperly Family and Photography in Victorian Jamaica
- Chapter 11. Noel B. Livingston’s Gallery of Illustrious Jamaicans
- Chapter 12. Picturing South Asians in Victorian Jamaica
- Chapter 13. Victorian Furniture in Jamaica
- Chapter 14. Jamaica’s Victorian Architectures, 1834–1907
- Chapter 15. Creole Architecture in Victorian Jamaica
- Chapter 16. “Keeping Alive Before the People’s Eyes This Great Event”: Kingston’s Queen Victoria Monument
- Chapter 17. “A Period of Exhibitions”: World’s Fairs, Museums, and the Laboring Black Body in Jamaica
- Part III. Race, Performance, Ritual
- Chapter 18. “Most Intensely Jamaican”: The Rise of Brown Identity in Jamaica
- Chapter 19. “Black Skin, White Mask?”: Race, Class, and the Politics of Dress in Victorian Jamaican Society, 1837–1901
- Chapter 20. Kumina: A Spiritual Vocabulary of Nationhood in Victorian Jamaica
- Chapter 21. Jamaican Performance in the Age of Emancipation
- Chapter 22. Black Jamaica and the Victorian Musical Imaginary
- Chapter 23. “A Mysterious Murder”: Considering Jamaican Victorianism
- Contributors
- Index
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