Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature

by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822347776
• ISBN13: 9780822347774
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"