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    4. Poetics of Empire: A Study of James Grainger's 'The Sugar-Cane'

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Gilmore,John (Author)
    Format:
    Monograph
    Publication Date:
    2000
    Published:
    New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    342 p, First published in 1764, The Sugar Cane is a major work in the history of Anglophone Caribbean literature. It is the only poem written in the Caribbean before the twentieth century to achieve a place in the Western 'canon'. Grainger wrote a "West India Georgic", challenging assumptions about poetic diction and the proper subject matter of poetry, and boldly asserting the importance of the Caribbean to the eighteenth-century British empire. This is the first reliable text and critical study of the poem, setting it within the context of Grainger's life and work; Grainger interprets his own experience of the Caribbean through his wide reading of literature. This is a critical study of his poem "The Sugar-Cane." (Amazon)