| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 332 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
New World studies
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New World studies.
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| Bibliography |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Caribbean literature -- Jewish authors -- History and literature.
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Caribbean literature. |
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Jewish authors. |
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Literature and history. |
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Caribbean literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism.
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Caribbean literature -- Black authors. |
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Caribbean literature -- Jewish authors.
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Caribbean literature -- Black authors.
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Jews in literature.
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Jews in literature. |
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Jews -- Caribbean Area -- Intellectual life.
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Jews. |
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Caribbean Area. |
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Intellectual life. |
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Caribbean Area -- Ethnic relations.
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Ethnic relations. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Casteel, Sarah Phillips, 1974- editor.
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Kaufman, Heidi, 1969- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Caribbean Jewish crossings. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019 9780813943282 (DLC) 2019024307 |
| ISBN |
0813943302 (electronic book) |
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9780813943305 (electronic book) |
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9780813943282 (hardcover) |
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9780813943299 (paperback) |
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