Alien Mixtures: Health and Disease in The Sugar-Cane's Biocolonial Ecosystem.
This article argues that James Grainger's The Sugar-Cane (1764) makes botanical management—the selection, transplantation, and regulation of plants—its central technology for naturalizing plantation "health." Reading the poem's transplanted remedies, its sugarcane monoculture, and its footnotes' nat...
| Published in: | Early American Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 286 - 312 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Summer2026
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