Caribbean women writers, migration, and survival Gadsby, Meredith. creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. mou Columbia University of Missouri Press c2006 2006 monographic eng

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xii, 225 p. "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. 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. Meredith M. Gadsby. Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-209) and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. n-us--- n-cn--- e-uk--- cc----- 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 PS153.C27 G33 2006eb 810.9/9287097291 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10155112 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10155112 CaPaEBR 060419 ebr10155112