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Sucking Salt: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, and Survival
Meredith M. Gadsby
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Description for Sucking Salt: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, and Survival
Hardcover. For Caribbean women, the image of sucking salt has long signified how they have endured hardship and found ways to transcend it. This study 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. Num Pages: 232 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
It is a persistent image in Caribbean literature. But for Caribbean women especially, salt - particularly the image of sucking salt - has long signified how they have endured hardship and found ways to transcend it. 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 ... Read more
It is a persistent image in Caribbean literature. But for Caribbean women especially, salt - particularly the image of sucking salt - has long signified how they have endured hardship and found ways to transcend it. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9780826216656
SKU
V9780826216656
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Ref
99-15
About Meredith M. Gadsby
MEREDITH M. GADSBY is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Oberlin College.
Reviews for Sucking Salt: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, and Survival
Gadsby's work is the most innovative contemporary analysis of an important theme of African Diaspora literary studies - migration and the transcendence over difficulty. - Carole Boyce Davies, author of Black Women, Writing, and Identity: Migrations of the Subject