Title: Sucking salt
First published: 2006
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.
Subjects: Social life and customs, English literature, Culture in literature, Caribbean American authors, Caribbean Women authors, Ethnicity in literature, History and criticism, American literature, Women authors, Minority women in literature, Canadian literature, Caribbean National characteristics, Authors, caribbean
LC classification: PS153.C27 G33 2006