Sucking salt: Caribbean women writers, migration, and survival

"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 creativ...

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Main Author: Gadsby, Meredith M. 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia [u.a.] Univ. of Missouri Press 2006
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"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.
Physical Description:XII, 225 S.
ISBN:082621665X
9780826216656