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100 1 _aGadsby, Meredith.
245 1 0 _aSucking salt
_h[electronic resource] :
_bCaribbean women writers, migration, and survival /
_cMeredith M. Gadsby.
260 _aColumbia :
_bUniversity of Missouri Press,
_cc2006.
300 _axii, 225 p.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 195-209) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : 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.
520 _a"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.
533 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_xWomen authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_xCaribbean American authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aCanadian literature
_xWomen authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aEnglish literature
_xWomen authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aWomen authors, Caribbean
_zEnglish-speaking countries.
650 0 _aMinority women in literature.
650 0 _aEthnicity in literature.
650 0 _aCulture in literature.
650 0 _aNational characteristics, Caribbean.
651 0 _aCaribbean Area
_xSocial life and customs.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
710 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3570907
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