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Title:

Caribbean Jewish crossings : literary history and creative practice / edited by Sarah Phillips Casteel and Heidi Kaufman.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xvi, 332 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Caribbean literature--History and literature.--History and literature.
Caribbean literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Caribbean literature--Jewish authors.
Caribbean literature--Black authors.
Jews in literature.
Jews--Caribbean Area--Intellectual life.
Caribbean Area--Ethnic relations.
Caribbean literature--Black authors.
Ethnic relations.
Jews in literature.
Jews--Intellectual life.
Caribbean Area.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Authors:

Casteel, Sarah Phillips, 1974- editor.
Kaufman, Heidi, 1969- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Foreword / Natalie Zemon Davis -- Introduction: Crossing Disciplines, Cultures, Geographies -- The Emergence of Caribbean Jewish Literary Culture. The Portuguese Jewish Nation: An Enlightenment Essay on the Colony of Surinam / Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger -- Henrik Hertz and Racial Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Danish Caribbean / David Gantt Gurley -- Jamaican Jewish Tricksters: Philip Cohen Labatt's Literary Crossings / Heidi Kaufman -- Translating Cuba: Language, Race, and Homeland in Cuban-Yiddish Poetry of the 1930s / Rachel Rubinstein -- Revisiting the Inquisition and the Sephardic Caribbean. David Dabydeen's Hogarth: Blacks, Jews, and Postcolonial Ekphrasis / Sarah Phillips Casteel -- Jubanidad and the Literary Transmission of Cuban Crypto-Judaism / Leonard Stein -- Diaspora and Hybridity: Jewish American Women Write the Caribbean / Linda Weinhouse and Efraim Sicher -- Colonialism and Caribbean Holocaust Memory. Splattering the Object: Césaire, Nazi Racism, and the Colonial / Ben Ratskoff -- From Shtetl to Settler Colony and Back: André Schwarz-Bart's Morning Star / Kathleen Gyssels -- Raphaël Confiant and Jewishness: The Fraught Landscapes of French, Martinican, and Franco-Martinican Intellectualisms / Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken -- Caryl Phillips's Post-Holocaust/Decolonized Interstices and the Levinasian Subjective in Higher Ground and The Nature of Blood / Neil R. Davison -- Contemporary Voices: Narrative and Poetry. Ema / Anna Ruth Henriques -- Meeting with Judith / Cynthia McLeod -- Jewish-Cuban Poems: "Dream of Sefarad," "The Last Perera," "A Father's Tattoo," "Saying Goodbye to La Habana in May" / Ruth Behar -- On The Nature of Blood and the Ghost of Anne Frank / Caryl Phillips -- Afterword / Bryan Cheyette.

Summary:

"This books highlights the historical convergence of African and Jewish immigrants to the Caribbean Islands by comparing their literatures of oppression, migration, and survival"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

New world studies

ISBN:

0813943299
9780813943299
0813943280
9780813943282

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1091586521

LCCN:

2019024307

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)