Sucking Salt

Sucking Salt
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Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9780826265210
ISBN-13 : 0826265219
Rating : 4/5 (219 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Sucking Salt by : Meredith Gadsby

Download or read book Sucking Salt written by Meredith Gadsby and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.


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