Meredith M. Gadsby. Sucking Sait: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, and Survival.(Book review)

From: African American Review | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Meredith M. Gadsby. Sucking Sait: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, and Survival. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2006. 240 pp. $39.95.

The folk will tell you that salt can either save you or destroy you. Toni Cade Bambara's Velma of The Salteaters realized that her survival depended on learning "the difference between eating salt as an antidote to snakebite and turning into salt, succumbing to the serpent." The lesson of similar folk wisdom is the subject of Meredith M. Gadsby's Sucking Salt, where she proposes as a new framework for the examination of Caribbean women's writing ...

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