02856nam a2200469 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095015001900112016001800131020004000149020001800189040002100207035002100228043003900249050002600288082002500314100002200339245011500361260005400476300001600530504006400546505055100610520038601161533015201547650006301699650007601762650006301838650006201901650005801963650003402021650002902055650002702084650004102111651004502152655002902197710001702226856012602243999001702369ebr10155112CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||060419s2006    mou     sb   s001 0 eng    z  2006013091  aGBA6582622bnb7 z0135006182Uk  z082621665X (hardcover : alk. paper)  z9780826216656  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)191953067  an-us---an-cn---ae-uk---acc-----14aPS153.C27bG33 2006eb04a810.9/92870972912221 aGadsby, Meredith.10aSucking salth[electronic resource] :bCaribbean women writers, migration, and survival /cMeredith M. Gadsby.  aColumbia :bUniversity of Missouri Press,cc2006.  axii, 225 p.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 195-209) and index.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.  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.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aAmerican literaturexWomen authorsxHistory and criticism. 0aAmerican literaturexCaribbean American authorsxHistory and criticism. 0aCanadian literaturexWomen authorsxHistory and criticism. 0aEnglish literaturexWomen authorsxHistory and criticism. 0aWomen authors, CaribbeanzEnglish-speaking countries. 0aMinority women in literature. 0aEthnicity in literature. 0aCulture in literature. 0aNational characteristics, Caribbean. 0aCaribbean AreaxSocial life and customs. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10155112zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c93503d93503