{"product_id":"calypso-jews-sarah-phillips-casteel-9780231174404","title":"Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 gap between postcolonial and Jewish studies, \u003ci\u003eCalypso Jews\u003c\/i\u003e enriches cross-cultural investigations of Caribbean creolization. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCaribbean writers invoke both the 1492 expulsion and the Holocaust as part of their literary archaeology of slavery and its legacies. Despite the unequal and sometimes fraught relations between Blacks and Jews in the Caribbean before and after emancipation, Black-Jewish literary encounters reflect sympathy and identification more than antagonism and competition. Providing an alternative to U.S.-based critical narratives of Black-Jewish relations, Casteel reads Derek Walcott, Maryse Condé, Michelle Cliff, Jamaica Kincaid, Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen, and Paul Gilroy, among others, to reveal a distinctive interdiasporic literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Phillips Casteel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231174403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231174404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/12\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/26\/2016 pg. 18","brand":"Sarah Phillips Casteel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086434906367,"sku":"9780231174404","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_16984ad1-939b-4e4c-b199-c5a2b415a459.jpg?v=1769094655","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/calypso-jews-sarah-phillips-casteel-9780231174404","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}