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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-209) and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

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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.;

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

Author/creator	Gadsby, Meredith
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Columbia : University of Missouri Press,
Description	xii, 225 p. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	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.

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.
Abstract	"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 note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-209) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2006013091
ISBN	082621665X (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780826216656

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