Sucking salt : Caribbean women writers, migration, and survival / Meredith M. Gadsby.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gadsby, Meredith
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2006.
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. American literature > History and criticism. Canadian literature > History and criticism. English literature > History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. English literature Canadian literature American literature American literature > Caribbean American authors American literature > Women authors Canadian literature > Women authors Culture in literature English literature > Women authors Ethnicity in literature Manners and customs Minority women in literature National characteristics, Caribbean Women authors, Caribbean Frauenliteratur Migration Caribbean Area > Social life and customs. Caribbean Area English-speaking countries Karibik Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

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.

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