Thiefing sugar : eroticism between women in Caribbean literature / Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-268) and index.

Introduction : the spring of her look -- "Rose is my mama, Stanfaste is my papa" : hybrid landscapes and sexualities in Surinamese women's oral poetry -- Darkening the lily : the erotics of self-making in Eliot Bliss's Luminous isle -- Blue countries, dark beauty : opaque desires in the poetry of Ida Faubert -- At the river of washerwomen : work, water, and sexual fluidity in Mayotte Capécia's I am a Martinican woman -- Transforming sugar, transitioning revolution: male womanhood and lesbian eroticism in Michelle Cliff's No telephone to heaven -- Breaking hard against things : crossing between sexual and revolutionary politics in Dionne Brand's No language is neutral.