Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination

(Part of the Literature Now Series)

by Sarah Phillips Casteel

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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 Caribbean fiction and poetry, Sarah Phillips Casteel presents the first major study of representations of Jewishness in Caribbean literature. Bridging the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0231174403

ISBN13:9780231174404

Release Date:January 2016

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Poetry

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(Part of the Literature Now Series)

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