...the islands' flora and fauna. In his study, The Cultural Politics of Sugar, the Barbadian scholar Keith Sandiford shows how the slavocrats, both those who stayed and those who absented themselves to live the sweet, sugar-made life in Britain, sought to portray Creole rule in the West Indies as `an evolving ideal of civilisation' and were more than content to host travelling or sojourning literati who could vindicate and publicise their Caribbean dispensation.

Sandiford's book concentrates upon six such authors--five British...

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