Alternative Geographies and Urban Parks: Duse Mohamed Ali and Yoshio Markino in Imperial London
Abstract
Abstract: Computational study of books published in Britain 1880–1940 revealed distinctive geographic features in writing by foreign-born authors of color: a preference for famous British cultural sites and for London's parks. This essay suggests reasons for those trends through close analysis of the work of two such authors, Duse Mohamed Ali and Yoshio Markino. Their otherwise diverse work negotiated racialized spatial and social divisions to resist imperial hierarchies and re-vision transnational relations. Centering the socio-spatial politics of London's parks, their work employed the sites as tools for reshaping imperial London into a place of belonging.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Spatial and Cultural Studies
Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
Literature: history
themes
analysis
Publication details
- Journal / source
- ELH
- Volume
- 93
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 31–64
- Publication date
- 1 March 2026
- Language
- EN