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Sucking salt Caribbean women writers, migration, and survival

Gadsby, Meredith. (Author).

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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  • ISBN: 9780826265210 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0826265219 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 082621665X (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780826216656
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
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    1 online resource (xii, 225 p.)
  • Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.

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General Note:
Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-209) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: National characteristics, Caribbean
Littérature anglaise -- Histoire et critique
American literature -- Caribbean American authors
Women authors, Caribbean
Literature
Littérature américaine -- Auteurs américains d'origine antillaise -- Histoire et critique
Littérature canadienne -- Histoire et critique
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
Migration
Ethnicity in literature
Culture
Manners and customs
Littérature américaine -- Auteurs américains d'origine antillaise -- Histoire et critique
Canadian literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Femmes issues des minorités dans la littérature
Antillais
American literature -- Women authors
American literature -- Caribbean American authors -- History and criticism
Frauenliteratur
Écrits de femmes anglais -- Histoire et critique
Culture dans la littérature
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Écrivaines antillaises -- Pays anglophones
Écrits de femmes américains -- Histoire et critique
Canadian literature -- Women authors
Écrits de femmes canadiens -- Histoire et critique
Ethnicity
National characteristics, Caribbean
Minority women
Minority women in literature
Culture in literature
Women authors, Caribbean -- English-speaking countries
Littérature américaine -- Histoire et critique
Ethnicité dans la littérature
English literature -- Women authors
Caribbean Area -- Social life and customs
Caraïbes (Région) -- Mœurs et coutumes
Karibik
Caribbean Area
English-speaking countries
Genre: Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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