Calypso Jews : Jewishness in the Caribbean literary imagination /

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 po...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Casteel, Sarah Phillips, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Series:Literature Now.
Subjects:
Caribbean literature (English) > History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (French) > History and criticism.
Jews in literature.
Jews > Caribbean Area > Identity.
Littérature antillaise (anglaise) > Histoire et critique.
Littérature antillaise (française) > Histoire et critique.
Juifs dans la littérature.
Juifs > Caraïbes (Région) > Identité.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Caribbean literature (English)
Caribbean literature (French)
Jews > Identity
Jews in literature
Caribbean Area
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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