Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature

In Thiefing Sugar, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley explores the poetry and prose of Caribbean women writers, revealing in...
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Author: Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley
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Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature by Tinsley, Omise'eke Natasha

Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature

$96.65

Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature

$96.65
Author: Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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."

Author: Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 08/18/2010
Pages: 290
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.22w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780822347774


Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2011

About the Author

Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Minnesota.


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