Slaves to Sweetness

Dr Carl Plasa is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University. Previous books include 'Textual Politics from Slavery to Postcolonialism: Race and Identification' (Palgrave, 2000), 'Toni Morrison: Beloved', Columbia Critical Guides Series (Columbia University Press, 1999) and 'The Discourse of Slavery: Aphra Behn to Toni Morrison' (co-edited with Betty J. Ring, Routledge, 1994).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. ‘Muse Suppress the tale’: James Grainger’s The Sugar-Cane and the poetry of refinement2. ‘Stained with Spots of Human Blood’: Sugar, abolition and cannibalism3. ‘Conveying away the Trash’: Sweetening Slavery in Matthew Lewis’s Journal of a West India Proprietor, kept during a residence in the Island of Jamaica4. ‘Sugared almonds and pink Lozenges’: George Eliot’s ‘Brother Jacob’ as Literary Confection5. ‘Cane is a Slaver’: Sugar Men and Sugar Women in postcolonial Caribbean poetry6. ‘Daughters Sacrificed to Strangers’: Interracial desires and intertextual memories in Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge7. ‘Somebody Kill Somebody, Then?’: The sweet revenge of Austin Clarke’s The Polished HoeBibliographyIndex

Carla Plasa’s Slaves to Sweetness: British and Caribbean Literatures of Sugar offers a more refined (excuse the pun) and refreshing take on movement and migration within a Caribbean and black British context.Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory