Caribbean Jewish Crossings: Literary History and Creative Practice
- ISBN-10
- 0813943302
- ISBN-13
- 9780813943305
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-11-19
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Authors
- Sarah Phillips Casteel, Heidi Kaufman
Description
Caribbean Jewish Crossings is the first essay collection to consider the Caribbean's relationship to Jewishness through a literary lens. Although Caribbean novelists and poets regularly incorporate Jewish motifs in their work, scholars have neglected this strain in studies of Caribbean literature. The book takes a pan-Caribbean approach, with chapters addressing the Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanophone, and Dutch-speaking Caribbean. Part 1 traces the emergence of a Caribbean-Jewish literary culture in Suriname, St. Thomas, Jamaica, and Cuba from the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth century. Part 2 brings into focus Sephardic and crypto-Jewish motifs in contemporary Caribbean literature, while Part 3 turns to the question of colonialism and its relationship to Holocaust memory. The volume concludes with the compelling voices of contemporary Caribbean creative writers.
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