The Poetics of Empire
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Author Description
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.
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THE THESIS
The Sugar Cane is a seminal work of Anglophone Caribbean literature, notable for its challenge to poetic conventions and its assertion of the region's significance to the British Empire.
THE SCOPE MAP
- Provides the first reliable text of Edward Clarke Clarke's poem, 'The Sugar Cane'.
- Offers a critical study of the poem within the context of Grainger's life and work.
- Explores Grainger's use of 'West India Georgic' style, challenging poetic diction norms.
- Analyzes the poem's bold assertion of the Caribbean's importance to the eighteenth-century British empire.
- Situates 'The Sugar Cane' within the Western literary canon, a unique position for a pre-twentieth-century Caribbean poem.
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
This critical edition of Edward Clarke Clarke's 'The Sugar Cane' is recognized for establishing the first reliable text of a significant work in Anglophone Caribbean literature. The accompanying study contextualizes the poem within the author's life and the broader historical landscape of the eighteenth-century British Empire. It highlights the poem's innovative challenge to poetic conventions and its assertion of the Caribbean's importance. The work is valued for its scholarly rigor in presenting a poem that achieved canonical status despite its regional origins.
Page Count:
342
Publication Date:
1999-01-01
ISBN-10:
0485115395
ISBN-13:
9780485115390
Classics
History
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Literary Criticism
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