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Coolie Mutiny

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Biomythographical figurescapes based on voyages and uprisings along the coolie trade, which transported indentured laborers from southern China to colonies in the Americas in the decades following the abolition of slavery. Reflecting on my experiences of childhood family separation and transnational migration, I offer my body as a bridge across radical histories and liberatory futures, layering and blurring the boundaries between personal and collective, human and nonhuman, leaving remnants of bodies in motion, illegible, unbound, uprising, ever-expanding to hold the multiplicities of life free from the colonial hegemonic project. 

 

Readings:

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Lisa Lowe, Intimacies of Four Continents

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Evelyn Hu-DeHart, “La Trata Amarilla: The “Yellow Trade” and the Middle Passage, 1847–1884” from Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World

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Edgar Holden, “A Chapter on the Coolie Trade,” Harper’s Monthly, 1864

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Gary Okihiro, “Afterword: Toward a Black Pacific,” in AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics

Mutiny on the Nouvelle Penelope
Flora Temple Undersea
Transcendent Kingdom
Atmospheric River
The Children Are Always Ours
Materia Medica, Bencao Gangmu

Grace Jin © 2025.

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