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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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 on 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. Zusammenfassung 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 Noel 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).
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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).
