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Eroticism Between Women in Caribbean Literature

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Thiefing Sugar

Eroticism Between Women in Caribbean Literature

1st edition

In Thiefing Sugar, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley explores the poetry and prose of Caribbean women writers, revealing in their imagery a rich tradition of erotic relations between women. She takes the book’s title from Dionne Brand’s novel In Another Place, Not Here, where eroticism between women is likened to the sweet and subversive act of cane cutters stealing sugar. The natural world is repeatedly reclaimed and reinterpreted to express love between women in the poetry and prose that Tinsley analyzes. She not only recuperates stories of Caribbean women loving women, stories that have been ignored or passed over by postcolonial and queer scholarship until now, she also shows how those erotic relations and their literary evocations form a poetics and politics of decolonization. Tinsley’s interpretations of twentieth-century literature by Dutch-, English-, and French-speaking women from the Caribbean take into account colonialism, migration, labor history, violence, and revolutionary politics. Throughout Thiefing Sugar, Tinsley connects her readings to contemporary matters such as neoimperialism and international LGBT and human-rights discourses. She explains too how the texts that she examines intervene in black feminist, queer, and postcolonial studies, particularly when she highlights the cultural limitations of the metaphors that dominate queer theory in North America and Europe, including those of the closet and “coming out.”

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English
Pages
288

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Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism Between Women in Caribbean Literature
2011-04-20, Duke University Press
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2010, Duke University Press
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2010-08-18, Duke University Press
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2010-08-18, Duke University Press
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Edition Notes

Published in
Durham, NC, USA
Series
Perverse Modernities
Copyright Date
2010

Classifications

Library of Congress
PN849

Contributors

Editor
J. Jack Halberstam
Editor
Lisa Lowe

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Format
ebook (Kindle)
Number of pages
288

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL29605470M
ISBN 10
0822393069
ISBN 13
9780822393061
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B004GXAH2S
BookBrainz
8b919ce1-6b50-42f4-97d9-ca91b548d08a
Goodreads
19926369
11425177

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