Elaine Mitchener's Sweet Tooth reading list
June 2020
Sweet Tooth, Liverpool Bluecoat, 2017. From left: Jason Yarde, Mark Sanders, Sylvia Hallett
Elaine Mitchener's music theatre work Sweet Tooth, a powerful engagement with the brutalities of slavery, its links to the British empire and the sugar industry, and its contemporary echoes, has been made available to stream online. Here Mitchener shares an extensive resource of relevant reading materials
This list first appeared appended to Chris Bohn’s 2017 interview, Breaking the chains: Elaine Mitchener on the British Empire’s legacy of cruelty. Watch Sweet Tooth on Vimeo.
Reading list:
Solar Throat Slashed by Aime Cesaire
Black Ivory: Slavery In The British Empire by James Walvin
Slavery And The Culture Of Taste by Simon Gikandi
The Cartographer Tries To Map A Way To Zion by Kei Miller
Testing The Chains: Resistance To Slavery In The British West Indies by Michael Craton
The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker
Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human As Praxis by Katherine McKittrick
Slavery And Revolution blog by Dr Christer Petley, the historical consultant for Sweet Tooth
Cambridge by Caryl Phillips
Interesting Narrative Of The Life of Olaudah Equiano by Paul Edwards
History Of The Voice: Development Of Nation Language In Anglophone Caribbean Poetry by Edward K Brathwaite
Folk Culture Of The Slaves In Jamaica by Edward K Brathwaite
Art And Emancipation In Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario And His Worlds by Tim Barringer et al
Ain't I A Woman: Black Women And Feminism by bell hooks
Rock It Come Over: The Folk Music Of Jamaica: With Special Reference To Kumina And The Work Of Mrs Imogene ‘Queenie’ Kennedy by Olive Lewin
Mastery, Tyranny, And Desire: Thomas Thistlewood And His Slaves In The Anglo-Jamaican World by Trevor Burnard
More Than Producers And Reproducers: Jamaican Slave Women's Dance And Song In The 1770s–1830s by Henrice Altink
Sugar Changed The World blog by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos
Slavery & Abolition: A Journal Of Slave And Post-Slave Studies edited by Gad Heumann
The Souls Of Black Folk by W E B Du Bois
Songs Of Sorrow: Lucy McKim Garrison And "Slave Songs Of The United States" by Samuel Charters
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