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In this article I trace the geographies of poverty and wealth represented in two contemporary Jamaican novels, Brian Meeks’s  Paint the Town Red  (2003) and Diana McCaulay’s popular novel,  Dog-Heart  (2010), and argue that despite the emphasis on the seemingly fixed distance between rich and poor, these novels are also concerned to present spaces of interconnection and relations of intimacy that cross physically imposed borders. In both novels, the city is affectively mapped: its spaces produce many varied and contradictory emotions that in turn define those spaces and their inhabitants. Using the work of social geographers I focus on the texts’ interrogation of kindness, compassion and intimacy, and their effectiveness as a means of transforming individual lives that are, finally, defined by the social, economic, and political structures which produce the humiliation, rage, and violence that destroy lives.

Re-placing Wealth, Re-mapping Social Division: Kingston in the Fiction of Brian Meeks and Diana McCaulay