ISBN:
9780813943282
,
9780813943299
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 332 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2019
Series Statement:
New world studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Caribbean Jewish crossings
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Caribbean Jewish crossings
DDC:
809/.889240729
Keywords:
Caribbean literature Jewish authors
;
History and literature
;
Caribbean literature Black authors
;
History and criticism
;
Caribbean literature Jewish authors
;
Caribbean literature Black authors
;
Jews in literature
;
Jews Intellectual life
;
Caribbean Area Ethnic relations
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
"This books highlights the historical convergence of African and Jewish immigrants to the Caribbean Islands by comparing their literatures of oppression, migration, and survival"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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