Slaves to Sweetness: British and Caribbean Literatures of Sugar

by Carl Plasa

Book Overview

Apparently innocuous, sugar is a substance which 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's Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar (1940) and No l Deerr's monumental two-volume The History of Sugar (1949-50) to Sidney Mintz's Sweetness and Power:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846317495
• ISBN13: 9781846317491
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"