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Sucking salt : Caribbean women writers, migration, and survival

Gadsby, Meredith M

2006

Overview

In this study of Caribbean women writers, Meredith Gadsby examines the fiction and poetry of both emigrant and island women to explore strategies they have developed for overcoming the oppression of racism, sexism, and economic deprivation in their lives and work. She first reviews the cultural and historical significance of salt in the Caribbean, then delineates creative resistance to oppression as expressed in the literature of Caribbean women writing about their migration to the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. From British poet Dorothea Smartt to Edwidge Danticat of New York's Haitian community-and with a special emphasis on the creative artistry of Paule Marshall-Gadsby shows how, through migration, these writers' protagonists move into and through metropolitan spaces to create new realities for themselves, their families, and their communities.

• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Subject: American literature / American literature -- Caribbean American authors -- History and criticism / American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism / Canadian literature / Canadian literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism / Caribbean American authors / Caribbean Area / Caribbean Area -- Social life and customs / Culture in literature / English literature / English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism / English-speaking countries / Ethnicity in literature / History and criticism / Literature-Foreign & Comparative / Minority women in literature / National characteristics, Caribbean / Social life and customs / Women authors / Women authors, Caribbean / Women authors, Caribbean -- English-speaking countries / Women's Studies
• ISBN: 082621665X, 9780826216656