Slaves to Sweetness: British and Caribbean Literatures of Sugar (2024)

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9781846315701

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9781846311840

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Carl Plasa

Carl Plasa

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1 March 2009

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9781846311840

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Liverpool University Press

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Plasa, Carl, Slaves to Sweetness: British and Caribbean Literatures of Sugar (Liverpool, 2009; online edn, Liverpool Scholarship Online, 20 June 2013), https://doi.org/10.5949/UPO9781846315701, accessed 3 Apr. 2024.

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Abstract

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, ranging from Fernando Ortis' Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar (1940) and Noël Deerr's monumental two-volume The History of Sugar (1949–50) to Sidney Mintz's Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (1985). The book not only examines the traditional classic studies but also the hitherto largely ignored work produced by a number of expatriate Caribbean authors, both male and female, from the 1980s onwards.

Keywords: sugar, slavery, New World, Caribbean authors, Fernando Ortis, Noël Deerr, Sidney Mintz

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