Sucking salt : Caribbean women writers, migration, and survival /

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"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gadsby, Meredith
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2006.
Temas:
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.
Littérature américaine > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes américains > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine antillaise > Histoire et critique.
Littérature canadienne > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes canadiens > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
Écrivaines antillaises > Pays anglophones.
Femmes issues des minorités dans la littérature.
Ethnicité dans la littérature.
Culture dans la littérature.
Antillais.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
English literature.
Canadian literature.
American literature.
American literature > Caribbean American authors.
American literature > Women authors.
Canadian literature > Women authors.
English literature > Women authors.
Manners and customs.
Women authors, Caribbean.
Frauenliteratur
Migration
Caribbean Area > Social life and customs.
Caraïbes (Région) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Caribbean Area.
English-speaking countries.
Karibik
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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