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Calypso Jews : Jewishness in the Caribbean literary imagination /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Casteel, Sarah Phillips, 1974- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Series:Literature Now.
Subjects:
Caribbean literature (English) > History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (French) > History and criticism.
Jews in literature.
Jews > Caribbean Area > Identity.
Caribbean literature (English)
Caribbean literature (French)
Jews > Identity.
Caribbean Area.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Sephardism in Caribbean literature: Derek Walcott's Pissarro
  • Marranism and Creolization: Myriam Chancy and Michelle Cliff
  • Port Jews in slavery fiction: Maryse Condé and David Dabydeen
  • Plantation Jews in slavery fiction: Cynthia McLeod's Jodensavanne
  • Calypso Jews: John Hearne and Jamaica Kincaid
  • Between camps: M. Nourbese Philip and Michèle Maillet
  • Writing under the sign of Anne Frank: Michelle Cliff and Caryl Phillips.