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. Sandiford's 2000 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, and about its social and political idealism.
Based on extensive historical knowledge of the period as well as
postcolonial theory, this book suggests the possibilities
negotiation offers in the process of recovery of West Indian
intellectual history.
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