TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gadsby,Meredith
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Sucking salt: Caribbean women writers, migration, and survival 
AV  - PS153.C27 G33 2006
U1  - 810.9/9287097291 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Columbia
PB  - University of Missouri Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Caribbean American authors
KW  - Canadian literature
KW  - English literature
KW  - Women authors, Caribbean
KW  - English-speaking countries
KW  - Minority women in literature
KW  - Ethnicity in literature
KW  - Culture in literature
KW  - National characteristics, Caribbean
KW  - Caribbean Area
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-209) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
N2  - "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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ER  -