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1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Women authors. |
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American literature -- Caribbean American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Caribbean American authors. |
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Canadian literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Canadian literature -- Women authors. |
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English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Women authors. |
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Women authors, Caribbean -- English-speaking countries.
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Women authors, Caribbean. |
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English-speaking countries. |
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Minority women in literature.
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Minority women in literature. |
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Ethnicity in literature.
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Ethnicity in literature. |
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Culture in literature.
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Culture in literature. |
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National characteristics, Caribbean.
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National characteristics, Caribbean. |
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Caribbean Area -- Social life and customs.
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Caribbean Area. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Caraïbes (Région) -- Mœurs et coutumes. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gadsby, Meredith. Sucking salt. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2006 (DLC) 2006013091 |
| ISBN |
9780826265210 (electronic book) |
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0826265219 (electronic book) |
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082621665X (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780826216656 |
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