| Description |
1 online resource (v, 221 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Ligon: 'sweete negotiation' -- CHAPTER 2 Rochefort: French collusions to negotiate -- CHAPTER 3 Grainger: creolizing the muse -- CHAPTER 4 Schaw: a 'saccharocracy' of virtue -- CHAPTER 5 Beckford: the aesthetics of negotiation -- CHAPTER 6 Lewis: personalizing the 'negotium' -- Postscript and prospect -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 LIGON: 'SWEETE NEGOTIATION' -- 2 ROCHEFORT: FRENCH COLLUSIONS TO NEGOTIATE -- 3 GRAINGER: CREOLIZING THE MUSE |
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4 SCHAW: A 'SACCHAROCRACY' OF VIRTUE5 BECKFORD: THE AESTHETICS OF NEGOTIATION -- 6 LEWIS: PERSONALIZING THE NEGOTIUM -- POSTSCRIPT AND PROSPECT -- Select bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Keith Sandiford's study examines the importance of sugar as a central metaphor in the work of six influential authors of the colonial West Indies. Sugar, he argues, became a focus for cultural desires as well as a hard fact of the Caribbean's political economy. Sandiford defines this metaphorical turn as a trope of ""negotiation"" that organizes the structure and content of the narratives. Based on extensive historical knowledge of the period and recent postcolonial theory, this book suggests the possibilities negotiation offers in the continuing recovery of West Indian intellectual history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-216) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ligon, Richard. True & exact history of the island of Barbados.
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Rochefort, Charles de, 1605-1683. Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique.
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Grainger, James, 1721?-1766. Essay on the more common West-India diseases and the remedies which that country itself produces
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Schaw, Janet, approximately 1731-approximately 1801. Journal of a lady of quality
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Beckford, William, -1799. Descriptive account of the island of Jamaica
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Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory), 1775-1818. Journal of a West India proprietor.
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| SUBJECT |
Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique (Rochefort, Charles de) fast |
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Journal of a West India proprietor (Lewis, M. G.) fast |
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True & exact history of the island of Barbados (Ligon, Richard) fast |
| Subject |
Sugar trade -- Political aspects -- West Indies -- Historiography
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Slavery -- West Indies -- Historiography
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Colonial influence -- Historiography
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Slavery -- Historiography
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West Indies -- Colonial influence -- Historiography
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West Indies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0511017502 |
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9780511017506 |
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0511036507 |
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9780511036507 |
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0511151063 |
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9780511151064 |
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0521642337 |
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9780521642330 |
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