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04128aam a2200553 i 4500 001 4098C958072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220719010102 008 210104t20222022vaua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020058451 020 $a 081394659X 020 $a 9780813946597 020 $a 0813946581 020 $a 9780813946580 035 $a (OCoLC)1232013844 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d UKMGB $d XII $d YDX $d OCLCO $d YUS $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a cc----- 050 00 $a PR9205.05 $b .N47 2022 082 00 $a 810.9/9729 $2 23 100 1 $a Nesbitt, Jennifer Poulos, $e author. 245 10 $a Rum histories : $b drinking in Atlantic literature and culture / $c Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt. 246 3 $a Drinking in Atlantic literature and culture 264 1 $a Charlottesville ; $b University of Virginia Press, $c 2022. 300 $a xvi, 215 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a New world studies 520 $a "When you drink rum, you drink history. More than merely a popular spirit in the transatlantic, rum became a cultural symbol of the Caribbean. While it is often dismissed as a set dressing in texts about the region, the historical and moral associations of alcohol generally--and rum specifically--cue powerful stereotypes, from touristic hedonism to social degeneracy. Rum Histories examines the drink in anglophone Atlantic literature in the period of decolonization to complicate and elevate the symbolic currency of a commodity that in fact reflects the persistence of colonialism in shaping the material and mental lives of postcolonial subjects. As a product of the plantation and as an intoxicant, rum was a central lubricant of the colonial economy as well as of cultural memory. Discussing a wide spectrum of writing, from popular contemporary works such as Christopher Moore's Fluke and Joseph O'Neill's Netherland to classics by Michelle Cliff, V. S. Naipaul, and other luminaries of the Caribbean diaspora, Jennifer Nesbitt investigates how rum's specific role in economic exploitation is muddled by moral attitudes about the consequences of drinking. The centrality of alcohol use to racialized and gendered norms guides Nesbitt's exploration of how the global commodities trade connects disparate populations across history and geography. This innovative study reveals rum's fascinating role in expressing the paradox of a postcolonial world still riddled with the legacies of colonialism." -- $c Publisher website. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 179 - 197) and index. 505 0 $a Rum's (in)significance - Frustrated drunks: masculine identity and (post)colonial literary ambition - Drunken sluts: protesting colonialism and patriarchy - Libations 1: spirits of change - Libations 2: reparative models in literary criticism - Is the rum gone? Imperial nostalgia. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Caribbean literature (English) $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Rum in literature. 650 0 $a Drinking in literature. 650 0 $a Postcolonialism in literature. 650 0 $a Rum $x Social aspects $z Caribbean Area. 650 0 $a English literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a American literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 650 7 $a Caribbean literature (English) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00847477 650 7 $a English literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00911989 650 7 $a Postcolonialism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01073035 650 7 $a Rum in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01904526 651 7 $a Caribbean Area. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01244080 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Nesbitt, Jennifer Poulos. $t Rum histories. $d Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021. $z 9780813946603 $w (DLC) 2020058452 830 0 $a New World studies. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117015946.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4098C958072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search