Abstract
This chapter explores the entwined urban histories of imperial Britain and colonial Jamaica as they haunt and structure the contemporary political life-writings of Stuart Hall’s Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands and Hazel Carby’s Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands. Excavating both the material histories and encrypted narratives of built space, the chapter examines the transatlantic architectures of the imperial/colonial past not as a series of deadened, inherited artifacts but as living heritage out of which the world and the self are continuously made and remade. Focalizing the interdisciplinary modalities of speculative autobiography, archival testimony, and multiscalar urban ethnography found in each text, the chapter analyzes four dynamic urban sites, zooming in and out to compare their topographical features, sedimented cultural mythologies, and emotional contours.
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