Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica

The Biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963

Dr. Gemma Romain (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2019
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-10609-3 (ISBN)

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This is the first biography of the extraordinary, but ordinary life of, Patrick Nelson. His experiences touched on some of the most important and intriguing historical themes of the twentieth century. He was a black migrant to interwar Britain; an aristocrat's valet in rural Wales; a Black queer man in 1930s London; an artist's model; a law student, a recruit to the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps and Prisoner of War during the Second World War. Through his return to Jamaica after the war and his re-migrations to London in the late 1940s and the early 1960s, he was also witness to post-war Jamaican struggles and the independence movement as well as the development of London's post-war multi-ethnic migrations. Drawing on a range of archival materials including letters sent to individuals such as Bloomsbury group artist Duncan Grant (his former boyfriend and life-long friend), as well as paintings and newspaper articles, Gemma Romain explores the intersections of these diverse aspects of Nelson's life and demonstrates how such marginalized histories shed light on our understanding of broader historical themes such as Black LGBTQ history, Black British history in relation to the London artworld, the history of the Second World War, and histories of racism, colonialism and empire.

Gemma Romain is a historian of the Caribbean and Black Britain. She researches, curates and writes on black British queer histories, and African-Caribbean diasporic histories with a focus on Grenada and Jamaica. She has recently worked at The Equiano Centre, Department of Geography, UCL, UK and is an Honorary Fellow of The Parkes Institute, University of Southampton, UK. She was the co-curator with Caroline Bressey, Emma Chambers and Inga Fraser of the Tate Britain display ‘Spaces of Black Modernism: London 1919–39’ (2014-2015).

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Archival Discoveries and Life Histories
1. Jamaican Beginnings: Class, Race and Identity in Colonial Jamaica
2. Patrick in 1920s and 1930s Jamaica: Cultural, Political, Social and Sexual Identities and Histories
3. Patrick in Interwar Wales: Race, Sexuality, and Employment
4. Queer Black Spaces and Cosmopolitan Interwar London
5. A Jamaican Serviceman in the British Expeditionary Force in 1940 France
6. Imprisonment and Survival in the German Prisoner of War Camps
7. Life after Captivity: Patrick, Politics and Life in Post-1945 London and Jamaica
8. Resuming Life: Identity, Community and Belonging
9. The Lonely Londoners: Patrick in Early 1960s London
Epilogue: Patrick's Life Story and its Historical and Contemporary Context
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.05.2019
Zusatzinfo	18 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	395 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-10609-7 / 1350106097
ISBN-13	978-1-350-10609-3 / 9781350106093
Zustand	Neuware