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- catalog abstract ""With the expansion of trade and empire in the early modern period, the status of sugar changed from expensive rarity to popular consumer commodity, and its real and imagined properties functioned as central metaphors for the cultural desires of West Indian Creoles. Keith Sandiford's study examines how the writings of six colonial West Indian authors explore these properties to publicise the economic value of the consumer object, and to invent a metaphor for West Indian cultural desires. Sandiford defines this metaphorical turn as a trope of 'negotiation' which organises the structure and content of the narratives: his argument establishes the function of this trope as a source of knowledge about the creolised imagination, about its social and political idealism. Based on extensive historical knowledge of the period as well as recent postcolonial theory, this book suggests the possibilities negotiation offers in the continuing recovery of West Indian intellectual history."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11977381.
- catalog coverage "West Indies Colonial influence Historiography.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""With the expansion of trade and empire in the early modern period, the status of sugar changed from expensive rarity to popular consumer commodity, and its real and imagined properties functioned as central metaphors for the cultural desires of West Indian Creoles. Keith Sandiford's study examines how the writings of six colonial West Indian authors explore these properties to publicise the economic value of the consumer object, and to invent a metaphor for West Indian cultural desires. Sandiford defines this metaphorical turn as a trope of 'negotiation' which organises the structure and content of the narratives: his argument establishes the function of this trope as a source of knowledge about the creolised imagination, about its social and political idealism. Based on extensive historical knowledge of the period as well as recent postcolonial theory, this book suggests the possibilities negotiation offers in the continuing recovery of West Indian intellectual history."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Ligon: 'sweete negotiation' -- 2. Rochefort: French collusions to negotiate -- 3. Grainger: creolizing the muse -- 4. Schaw: a 'saccharocracy' of virtue -- 5. Beckford: the aesthetics of negotiation -- 6. Lewis: personalizing the 'negotium'.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-216) and index.".
- catalog extent "v, 221 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521642337".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "West Indies Colonial influence Historiography.".
- catalog spatial "West Indies".
- catalog subject "306/.09729 21".
- catalog subject "Beckford, William, -1799. Descriptive account of the island of Jamaica.".
- catalog subject "Grainger, James, 1721?-1766. Essay on the more common West-India diseases and the remedies which that country itself produces.".
- catalog subject "Grainger, James, 1721?-1766.".
- catalog subject "HD9114.W42 S26 2000".
- catalog subject "Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory), 1775-1818. Journal of a West India proprietor.".
- catalog subject "Ligon, Richard. True & exact history of the island of Barbadoes.".
- catalog subject "Ligon, Richard. True & exact history of the island of Barbados.".
- catalog subject "Rochefort, Charles de, 1605-1683. Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique.".
- catalog subject "Rochefort, Charles-César, comte de. Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique.".
- catalog subject "Schaw, Janet, approximately 1731-approximately 1801. Journal of a lady of quality.".
- catalog subject "Schaw, Janet, ca. 1731-ca. 1801. Journal of a lady of quality.".
- catalog subject "Slavery West Indies Historiography.".
- catalog subject "Sugar trade Political aspects West Indies Historiography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Ligon: 'sweete negotiation' -- 2. Rochefort: French collusions to negotiate -- 3. Grainger: creolizing the muse -- 4. Schaw: a 'saccharocracy' of virtue -- 5. Beckford: the aesthetics of negotiation -- 6. Lewis: personalizing the 'negotium'.".
- catalog title "The cultural politics of sugar : Caribbean slavery and narratives of colonialism / Keith A. Sandiford.".
- catalog type "text".