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Sucking salt : Caribbean women writers, migration, and survival
- Title
- Sucking salt : Caribbean women writers, migration, and survival / Meredith M. Gadsby.
- Author
- Gadsby, Meredith.
- Publication
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.
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- Description
- xii, 225 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Examines the literature of black Caribbean emigrant and island women including Dorothea Smartt, Edwidge Danticat, Paule Marshall, and others, who use the terminology and imagery of "sucking salt" as an articulation of a New World voice connoting adaptation, improvisation, and creativity, offering a new understanding of diaspora, literature, and feminism"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Women authors, Caribbean > English-speaking countries
- English literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- Ethnicity in literature
- Minority women in literature
- Caribbean Area > Social life and customs
- American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- National characteristics, Caribbean
- Culture in literature
- American literature > Caribbean American authors > History and criticism
- Canadian literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-209) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : little salt won't kill you -- The salience of memory : the cultural and historical significance of salt in the Caribbean -- "It sweeter than meat!" : saltfish, sexual politics, and the Caribbean oral imagination -- Harvesting salt : Caribbean women writers in England and the philosophy of survival -- I suck coarse salt : Caribbean women writers in Canada--language, location, and the politics of transcendence -- Refugees of a world on fire : kitchen place and refugee space in the poetics of Paule Marshall and Edwidge Danticat.
- Call Number
- Sc E 06-1167
- ISBN
- 082621665X (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006013091
- 9780826216656
- OCLC
- 68220798
- Author
- Gadsby, Meredith.
- Title
- Sucking salt : Caribbean women writers, migration, and survival / Meredith M. Gadsby.
- Imprint
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-209) and index.
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780826216656
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 06-1167