Caribbean Jewish crossings : literary history and creative practice /
Imprint: | Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019. ©2019 |
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Description: | xvi, 332 pages ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | New world studies New World studies. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11963313 |
Summary: | 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. |
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Physical Description: | xvi, 332 pages ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780813943282 0813943280 9780813943299 0813943299 9780813943305 |