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

Main Author: Gadsby, Meredith.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2006.
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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.