Thiefing Sugar
Subtitle: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature
By: Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley.
Edition: 1st edition
Series: Perverse Modernities
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham, NC, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780822347569
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Caribbean literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Lesbianism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the spring of her look; title: "Rose is my mama, Stanfaste is my papa" : hybrid landscapes and sexualities in Surinamese women's oral poetry; title: Darkening the lily : the erotics of self-making in Eliot Bliss's Luminous isle; title: Blue countries, dark beauty : opaque desires in the poetry of Ida Faubert; title: At the river of washerwomen : work, water, and sexual fluidity in Mayotte Capécia's I am a Martinican woman; title: Transforming sugar, transitioning revolution:  male womanhood and lesbian eroticism in Michelle Cliff's No telephone to heaven; title: Breaking hard against things : crossing between sexual and revolutionary politics in Dionne Brand's No language is neutral.