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Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination (Literature Now)
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 Cari... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World
by Michael E. Staub • Donna-Lee Frieze • Tony Kushner • Marjorie N. Feld • Sarah Phillips Casteel • Shirli Gilbert • Amos Goldberg • Avril Alba • Milton Shain • Suzanne D. Rutland • Dan J. Puckett • David Slucki • James Jordan • Michael Rothberg • Bashir Bashir • Steven Cooke • Dorota GlowackaThe Holocaust is often invoked as a benchmark for talking about human rights abuses from slavery and apartheid to colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Western educators and politicians draw seemingly obvious lessons of tolerance and anti-racism from the Nazi past, and their work rests on the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Caribbean Jewish Crossings: Literary History and Creative Practice (New World Studies)
by Ruth Behar • Caryl Phillips • Natalie Zemon Davis • Bryan Cheyette • Sarah Phillips Casteel • Efraim Sicher • Rachel Rubinstein • Cynthia McLeod • Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken • Neil R. Davison • David Gantt Gurley • Kathleen Gyssels • Anna Ruth Henriques • Heidi Kaufman • Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger • Ben Ratskoff • Leonard Stein • Linda WeinhouseCaribbean 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.Th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019