Sucking salt
Subtitle: Caribbean women writers, migration, and survival
By: Meredith M. Gadsby.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780826216656
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
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-209) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : little salt won't kill you; title: The salience of memory : the cultural and historical significance of salt in the Caribbean; title: "It sweeter than meat!" : saltfish, sexual politics, and the Caribbean oral imagination; title: Harvesting salt : Caribbean women writers in England and the philosophy of survival; title: I suck coarse salt : Caribbean women writers in Canada; title: language, location, and the politics of transcendence; title: Refugees of a world on fire : kitchen place and refugee space in the poetics of Paule Marshall and Edwidge Danticat.