{"id":2360,"date":"2014-10-08T15:52:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T19:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/icslac\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2014-10-08T15:56:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T19:56:42","slug":"blacks-jews-1492-holocaust-caribbean-literary-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/2014\/blacks-jews-1492-holocaust-caribbean-literary-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBlacks and Jews: The Other 1492 and the Holocaust in the Caribbean Literary Imagination\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Sarah Phillips Casteel of the\u00a0Department of English, Institute of African Studies and\u00a0Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art &amp; Culture will present &#8220;Blacks and Jews: The Other 1492 and the Holocaust in \u00a0the Caribbean Literary Imagination&#8221; on\u00a0Friday, October 17th, 3:00 p.m.,\u00a01811 Dunton Tower (English Department Lounge)<\/p>\n<p>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\u2013Jewish relations in the U.S. and especially not through a paradigm of \u201ccompetitive memory.\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014-Research-Talks-Casteel.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Sarah Phillips Casteel of the\u00a0Department of English, Institute of African Studies and\u00a0Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art &amp; Culture will present &#8220;Blacks and Jews: The Other 1492 and the Holocaust in \u00a0the Caribbean Literary Imagination&#8221; on\u00a0Friday, October 17th, 3:00 p.m.,\u00a01811 Dunton Tower (English Department Lounge) Caribbean writers regularly invoke two traumatic moments of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - 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