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Caribbean Writers and the Jewish Diaspora: A Shared Experience of Otherness
Ledent, Bénédicte
2017In Collier, Gordon; Davis, Geoffrey; Delrez, Marc et al. (Eds.) The Cross-Cultural Legacy: Critical and Creative Writings in Memory of Hena Maes-Jelinek
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Keywords :
Caribbean; Jewish diaspora; Otherness
Abstract :
[en] As Paul Gilroy points out in The Black Atlantic (1993), a comparative approach to the African and Jewish Diasporas, in spite of possible pitfalls, is likely to lead to a better understanding of modernity, characterized as it is by displacements but also by a propensity to discriminate against the ‘Other’. Several Caribbean authors have suggested in their writing parallels between the African and Jewish experiences of exclusion and extermination, between slavery and the Holocaust. This is especially the case with a generation of writers born in the Caribbean in the two decades after the Second World War and now based in the UK or the USA, such as Michelle Cliff, David Dabydeen, Caryl Phillips, and Lawrence Scott, who have addressed the commonalities between the two diasporas in their fiction and non-fiction. This essay highlights the coherence of these writers’ inclusive remembrance of black and Jewish suffering, and places their vision in the context of their attempts at self-definition, both collective and individual.
Research center :
CEREP - Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Études Postcoloniales - ULiège
Disciplines :
Literature
Author, co-author :
Ledent, Bénédicte  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des langues et littératures modernes > Langue et linguistique anglaises modernes
Language :
English
Title :
Caribbean Writers and the Jewish Diaspora: A Shared Experience of Otherness
Publication date :
2017
Main work title :
The Cross-Cultural Legacy: Critical and Creative Writings in Memory of Hena Maes-Jelinek
Editor :
Collier, Gordon
Davis, Geoffrey
Delrez, Marc ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Etudes post-coloniales (CEREP)
Ledent, Bénédicte  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues modernes : linguistique, littérature et traduction
Publisher :
Brill/Rodopi, Leiden, Netherlands
ISBN/EAN :
9789004336421
Collection name :
Cross-Cultures, n°193
Pages :
201-218
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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