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”
Categories: Lectures and Seminars | Intended for Carleton Community, Current Students, Faculty, Staff/Faculty
1811 Dunton Tower
1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON
Contact Information
Stuart Murray, 2311, stuart.murray@carleton.ca
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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.