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Caribbean Jewish Crossings Literary History and Creative Practice / edited by Sarah Phillips Casteel, Heidi Kaufman.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New World studies.
- New world studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Caribbean Area--Intellectual life.
- Jews.
- Jews in literature.
- Caribbean literature--Black authors.
- Caribbean literature.
- Caribbean literature--Jewish authors.
- Caribbean literature--Black authors--History and criticism.
- Caribbean literature--Jewish authors--History and literature.
- Caribbean Area--Ethnic relations.
- Caribbean Area.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 pages).
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
- 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.
- 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: Cesaire, Nazi Racism, and the Colonial / Ben Ratskoff
- From Shtetl to Settler Colony and Back: Andre 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813943305
- 0813943302
- OCLC:
- 1117315414
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