Sucking salt : Caribbean women writers, migration, and survival / Meredith M. Gadsby.

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.

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

Women authors, Caribbean--English-speaking countries.

Women authors, Caribbean.

Minority women in literature.

Ethnicity in literature.

Culture in literature.

National characteristics, Caribbean.

Caribbean Area--Social life and customs.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-209) and index.

ISBN:

0-8262-6521-9

OCLC:

191953067