Slaves to Sweetness British and Caribbean Literatures of Sugar

by Plasa, Carl

• ISBN13: 9781846311840
• ISBN10: 1846311845
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-15
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
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Summary

Literary and sociological studies have long been fascinated by the seemingly innocuous substance of sugar, not least because of its direct link with the histories of slavery in the New World. Unlike previous texts,Slaves to Sweetnessexamines not only traditional, classic studies on the history of sugar, but also explores the previously ignored work produced by expatriate Caribbean authors from the 1980s onward. As a result, this volume provides the most comprehensive account to date of the historical transformations undergone by our representations of sugar, making it a rich resource for scholars in numerous fields.

Author Biography

Carl Plasa is senior lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University and the author of Textual Politics from Slavery to Postcolonialism: Race and Identification, among other titles.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
`Muse Suppress the Tale': James Grainger's The Sugar-Cane and the Poetry of Refinement	p. 8
`Stained with Spots of Human Blood': Sugar, Abolition and Cannibalism	p. 33
`Conveying away the Trash': Sweetening Slavery in Matthew Lewis's Journal of a West India Proprietor, Kept during a Residence in the Island of Jamaica	p. 52
`Sugared Almonds and Pink Lozenges': George Eliot's `Brother Jacob' as Literary Confection	p. 75
`Cane is a Slaver': Sugar Men and Sugar Women in Postcolonial Caribbean Poetry	p. 96
`Daughters Sacrificed to Strangers': Interracial Desires and Intertextual Memories in Caryl Phillips's Cambridge	p. 125
`Somebody Kill Somebody, Then?': The Sweet Revenge of Austin Clarke's The Polished Hoe	p. 146
Bibliography	p. 168
Index	p. 177
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