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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820200803321

Autore

Gadsby Meredith

Titolo

Sucking salt [[electronic resource] ] : Caribbean women writers, migration, and survival / / Meredith M. Gadsby

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8262-6521-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/9287097291

Soggetti

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

Caribbean Area Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.