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Calypso Jews

Early on in her revelatory book, Canadian scholar Sarah Phillips Casteel makes an observation about “the strikingly persistent presence of Jewishness in Caribbean writing” and goes on to say that the phenomenon “merits attention.” In Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination (Columbia University Press), Casteel, an associate professor of English at Carleton University, explores this […]