Title Calypso Jews : Jewishness in the Caribbean literary imagination / Sarah Phillips Casteel

Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource Series Literature Now Literature now Contents Sephardism in Caribbean literature: Derek Walcott's Pissarro -- Marranism and Creolization: Myriam Chancy and Michelle Cliff -- Port Jews in slavery fiction: Maryse Condé and David Dabydeen -- Plantation Jews in slavery fiction: Cynthia McLeod's Jodensavanne -- Calypso Jews: John Hearne and Jamaica Kincaid -- Between camps: M. Nourbese Philip and Michèle Maillet -- Writing under the sign of Anne Frank: Michelle Cliff and Caryl Phillips Summary 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 of slavery and its legacies. Despite the unequal and sometimes fraught relations between Blacks and Jews in the Caribbean before and after emancipation, Black-Jewish literary encounters reflect sympathy and identification more than antagonism and competition. Providing an alternative to U.S.-based critical narratives of Black-Jewish relations, Casteel reads Derek Walcott, Maryse Condé, Michelle Cliff, Jamaica Kincaid, Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen, and Paul Gilroy, among others, to reveal a distinctive interdiasporic literature. --cover Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Vendor-supplied metadata Subject Caribbean literature (English) -- History and criticism Caribbean literature (French) -- History and criticism Jews in literature. Jews -- Caribbean Area -- Identity LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Caribbean literature (English) Caribbean literature (French) Jews -- Identity Jews in literature Caribbean Area Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2015017753 ISBN 9780231540575 0231540574

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