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Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination
Sarah Phillips Casteel
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Description for Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination
Hardback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 352 pages, 11 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; DSBH; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
In original and insightful ways, Caribbean writers have turned to Jewish experiences of exodus and reinvention, from the Sephardim expelled from Iberia in the 1490s to the Calypso Jews who fled Europe for Trinidad in the 1930s. Examining these historical migrations through the lens of postwar Caribbean fiction and poetry, Sarah Phillips Casteel presents the first major study of representations of Jewishness in Caribbean literature. Bridging the gap between postcolonial and Jewish studies, Calypso Jews enriches cross-cultural investigations of Caribbean creolization. Caribbean writers invoke both the 1492 expulsion and the Holocaust as part of their literary archaeology ... Read more
In original and insightful ways, Caribbean writers have turned to Jewish experiences of exodus and reinvention, from the Sephardim expelled from Iberia in the 1490s to the Calypso Jews who fled Europe for Trinidad in the 1930s. Examining these historical migrations through the lens of postwar Caribbean fiction and poetry, Sarah Phillips Casteel presents the first major study of representations of Jewishness in Caribbean literature. Bridging the gap between postcolonial and Jewish studies, Calypso Jews enriches cross-cultural investigations of Caribbean creolization. Caribbean writers invoke both the 1492 expulsion and the Holocaust as part of their literary archaeology ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Literature Now
Condition
New
Weight
601g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231174404
SKU
V9780231174404
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About Sarah Phillips Casteel
Sarah Phillips Casteel is associate professor of English at Carleton University, where she holds a cross-appointment with the Institute of African Studies. She is the author of Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas and coeditor, with Winfried Siemerling, of Canada and Its Americas: Transnational Navigations.
Reviews for Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination
A rich, consequential, powerful work that will make a difference in Jewish and postcolonial studies alike.
Jonathan Freedman, author of Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity An engaging and rather unusual study of diaspora Jewry in the West Indies... [that shines a] bright, exalting light... on the Caribbean and its many different peoples.
Ian Thomson Times Literary Supplement Throughout ... Read more
Jonathan Freedman, author of Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity An engaging and rather unusual study of diaspora Jewry in the West Indies... [that shines a] bright, exalting light... on the Caribbean and its many different peoples.
Ian Thomson Times Literary Supplement Throughout ... Read more