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
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2006.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
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:1 online resource (xii, 225 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index.
ISBN:9780826265210
0826265219

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