Caribbean Jewish Crossings : Literary History and Creative Practice
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| Title: | Caribbean Jewish Crossings : Literary History and Creative Practice |
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| 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. |
| Authors: | Sarah Phillips Casteel, Heidi Kaufman |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Jews--Caribbean Area--Intellectual life, Caribbean literature--Jewish authors, Caribbean literature--Jewish authors--History and literature, Caribbean literature--Black authors, Caribbean literature--Black authors--History and criticism, Jews in literature |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
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