Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index.
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.
0
"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.
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.
Sucking salt.
American literature-- Caribbean American authors-- History and criticism.
American literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
Canadian literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
Culture in literature.
English literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
Ethnicity in literature.
Minority women in literature.
National characteristics, Caribbean.
Women authors, Caribbean-- English-speaking countries.
Antillais.
Culture dans la littérature.
Écrits de femmes américains-- Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes anglais-- Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes canadiens-- Histoire et critique.
Écrivaines antillaises-- Pays anglophones.
Ethnicité dans la littérature.
Femmes issues des minorités dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine-- Auteurs américains d'origine antillaise-- Histoire et critique.