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Slaves to sweetness : British and Caribbean literatures of sugar /
Apparently innocuous, sugar is a substance that brings with it a profound disquiet, not least because of its direct links with the histories of slavery in the New World. These links have long been a source of critical fascination, generating several landmark analyses. This book not only examines the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Liverpool studies in international slavery ;
1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 'Muse suppress the tale' : James Grainger's The sugar-cane and the poetry of refinement
- 'Stained with spots of human blood' : sugar, abolition and cannibalism
- '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
- 'Sugared almonds and pink lozenges' : George Eliot's 'Brother Jacob' as literary confection
- 'Cane is a slaver' : sugar men and sugar women in postcolonial Caribbean poetry
- 'Daughters sacrificed to strangers' : interracial desires and intertextual memories in Caryl Phillips's Cambridge
- 'Somebody kill somebody, then?' : the sweet revenge of Austin Clarke's The polished hoe.