03488nam 2200721 a 450 991082020080332120200520144314.00-8262-6521-9(CKB)1000000000467099(OCoLC)191953067(CaPaEBR)ebrary10155112(SSID)ssj0000253441(PQKBManifestationID)11200345(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000253441(PQKBWorkID)10187118(PQKB)10401416(MiAaPQ)EBC3570907(Au-PeEL)EBL3570907(CaPaEBR)ebr10155112(EXLCZ)99100000000046709920060419d2006 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSucking salt Caribbean women writers, migration, and survival /Meredith M. Gadsby1st ed.Columbia University of Missouri Pressc20061 online resource (240 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8262-1665-X 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."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.American literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literatureCaribbean American authorsHistory and criticismCanadian literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismEnglish literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismWomen authors, CaribbeanEnglish-speaking countriesMinority women in literatureEthnicity in literatureCulture in literatureNational characteristics, CaribbeanCaribbean AreaSocial life and customsAmerican literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureCaribbean American authorsHistory and criticism.Canadian literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.English literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Women authors, CaribbeanMinority women in literature.Ethnicity in literature.Culture in literature.National characteristics, Caribbean.810.9/9287097291Gadsby Meredith1603786MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820200803321Sucking salt3928315UNINA