by Linda Lee Graham | Life in the 18th Century, Slide, Voices Echo
Kara Walker’s “Subtlety” is Anything But Appearances notwithstanding, it’s safe to say Kara Walker didn’t intend to present a sugarcoated history when she created her cast of sticky subtleties in the defunct New York Domino Sugar refinery earlier this...
by Linda Lee Graham | Life in the 18th Century, Slide, Voices Echo
Sugarcoating the Unsavory Side of History Sugarcoat history? Of course we can, but should we? Not in my opinion. Still, it’s a fine line to straddle when writing romantic historical fiction—particularly a story that takes place in brutal 18th-century Jamaica. I...