Sucking salt [electronic resource] : Caribbean women writers, migration, and survival / Meredith M. Gadsby.
Gadsby, Meredith.
2006
PS153.C27 G33 2006eb
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Title
Sucking salt [electronic resource] : Caribbean women writers, migration, and survival / Meredith M. Gadsby.
Author
Gadsby, Meredith.
ISBN
082621665X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780826216656
Publication Details
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.
Language
English
Description
xii, 225 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PS153.C27 G33 2006eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.9/9287097291
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-209) and index.
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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.

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