Abstract
In this essay, I offer a queer, postcolonial reading of Patricia Powell’s 1998 novel The Pagoda, focusing on the limits of home as conceptualized within national and heterosexual boundaries. The novel’s protagonist Lowe does his best to assimilate to post-‐emancipation Jamaican society. However, Lowe’s effort for assimilation paradoxically precipitates his exile from home.
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Kim, Minjeong
(2014)
"Globetrotting Queerness: Patricia Powell’s The Pagoda,"
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies: Vol. 12:
Iss.
1, Article 5.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/wagadu/vol12/iss1/5
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