Sarah Phillips Casteel: “Blacks and Jews: The Other 1492 and the Holocaust in the Caribbean Literary Imagination”

Sarah Phillips Casteel: “Blacks and Jews: The Other 1492 and the Holocaust in the Caribbean Literary Imagination”

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Friday, October 17, 2014

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Add to calendar

1811 Dunton Tower

1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON

Contact Information

Stuart Murray, 2311, stuart.murray@carleton.ca

Registration

No registration required.

Cost

Free

About this Event

Host Organization: Department of English Language & Literature

Research Talk by Sarah Phillips Casteel

Blacks and Jews: The Other 1492 and the Holocaust in the Caribbean Literary Imagination

Caribbean writers regularly invoke two traumatic moments of Jewish historical experience: the Sephardic expulsions of the 1490s and the Holocaust. This talk argues that Caribbean literary treatments of Jewishness cannot be interpreted through the lens of Black–Jewish relations in the U.S. and especially not through a paradigm of “competitive memory.” Instead, they need to be contextualized with reference to the distinctive histories of contact and entanglement between Black and Jewish diaspora cultures in the Atlantic world.