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

Published Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism American literature -- Caribbean American authors -- History and criticism Canadian literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Women authors, Caribbean -- English-speaking countries Minority women in literature. Ethnicity in literature. Culture in literature. National characteristics, Caribbean. American literature -- History and criticism. Canadian literature -- History and criticism English literature -- History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. English literature Canadian literature American literature American literature -- Caribbean American authors American literature -- Women authors Canadian literature -- Women authors Culture in literature English literature -- Women authors Ethnicity in literature Manners and customs Minority women in literature National characteristics, Caribbean Women authors, Caribbean Frauenliteratur Migration SUBJECT Caribbean Area -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85020293 Subject Caribbean Area English-speaking countries Karibik Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2006013091 ISBN 9780826265210 0826265219

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