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Sucking salt : Caribbean women writers, migration, and survival / Meredith M. Gadsby.
Van Pelt Library PS153.C27 G33 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gadsby, Meredith.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Caribbean American authors--History and criticism.
- Canadian literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Canadian literature.
- Canadian literature--Women authors.
- English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--Women authors.
- Women authors, Caribbean--English-speaking countries.
- Women authors, Caribbean.
- Minority women in literature.
- Ethnicity in literature.
- Culture in literature.
- National characteristics, Caribbean.
- American literature--Caribbean American authors.
- American literature--Women authors.
- Caribbean Area--Social life and customs.
- Caribbean Area.
- Manners and customs.
- English-speaking countries.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 225 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2006]
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index.
- ISBN:
- 082621665X
- OCLC:
- 68220798
- Publisher Number:
- 9780826216656
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