Sucking salt (Record no. 201048)
| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 02858nam a2200469 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 810.9/9287097291 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Gadsby, Meredith. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Sucking salt |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Columbia : |
| Name of publisher | University of Missouri Press, |
| Year of publication | c2006. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xii, 225 p. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | American literature |
| Topical Term | American literature |
| Topical Term | Canadian literature |
| Topical Term | English literature |
| Topical Term | Women authors, Caribbean |
| Topical Term | Minority women in literature. |
| Topical Term | Ethnicity in literature. |
| Topical Term | Culture in literature. |
| Topical Term | National characteristics, Caribbean. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10155112 |
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