Slaves to Sweetness
British and Caribbean Literatures of Sugar
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
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 Sweetness examines not only traditional, classic studies of 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.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. ‘Muse Suppress the Tale’: James Grainger’s The Sugar-Cane and the Poetry of Refinement
2. ‘Stained with Spots of Human Blood’: Sugar, Abolition and Cannibalism
3. ‘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
4. ‘Sugared Almonds and Pink Lozenges’: George Eliot’s ‘Brother Jacob’ as Literary Confection
5. ‘Cane is a Slaver’: Sugar Men and Sugar Women in Postcolonial Caribbean Poetry
6. ‘Daughters Sacrificed to Strangers’: Interracial Desires and Intertextual Memories in Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge
7. ‘Somebody Kill Somebody, Then?’: The Sweet Revenge of Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe
Bibliography
Index
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