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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: Book
Language: English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2006]
Physical Description: xii, 225 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
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.
Caribbean Area -- Social life and customs.

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