In original and insightful ways, Caribbean writers have turned to Jewish experiences of exodus and reinvention, from the Sephardim expelled from Iberia in the 1490s to the "Calypso Jews" who fled Europe for Trinidad in the 1930s. Examining these historical migrations through the lens of postwar Caribbean fiction and poetry, Sarah Phillips Casteel presents the first major study of representations of Jewishness in Caribbean literature. Bridging the gap between postcolonial and Jewish studies, Calypso Jews enriches cross-cultural investigations of Caribbean creolization.
Caribbean writers invoke both the 1492 expulsion and the Holocaust as part of their literary archaeology of slavery and its legacies. Despite the unequal and sometimes fraught relations between Blacks and Jews in the Caribbean before and after emancipation, Black-Jewish literary encounters reflect sympathy and identification more than antagonism and competition. Providing an alternative to U.S.-based critical narratives of Black-Jewish relations, Casteel reads Derek Walcott, Maryse Condé, Michelle Cliff, Jamaica Kincaid, Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen, and Paul Gilroy, among others, to reveal a distinctive interdiasporic literature.
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION
- Ekken’s Life and Thought
- The Text in the Context of East Asian Confucianism
- Material Force (Qi)
- Zhang Zai's Development of the Concept of Material Force
- The Influence of the Monism of Qi of Luo Qinshun
- Affirmation and Dissent: The Significance of the Record of Great Doubts
- The Text in the Context of Tokugawa Japan
- The Spread of Confucian Ideas and Values
- Tradition and the Individual: The Importance of Dissent and the Centrality of Learning
- Philosophical Debates Regarding Principle and Material Force
- Reappropriating Tradition: Practical Learning and the Philosophy of Qi
- Interpretations of Ekken’s Philosophy of Qi
- Confucian Cosmology: Organic Holism and Dynamic Vitalism
- Confucian Cultivation: Harmonizing with Change and Assisting Transformation
- The Significance of Qi as an Ecological Cosmology
- Notes
- PREFACE
- PART I
- On the Transmission of Confucian Thought
- On Human Nature
- On Bias, Discernment, and Selection
- On Learning from What Is Close at Hand
- The Indivisibility of the Nature of Heaven and Earth and One’s Physical Nature
- Acknowledging Differences with the Song Confucians
- PART II
- Partiality in the Learning of the Song Confucians
- Reverence Within and Rightness Without
- Influences from Buddhism and Daoism
- The Supreme Ultimate
- The Way and Concrete Things
- Returning the World to Humaneness
- Reverence and Sincerity
- Reverence as the Master of the Mind
- The Inseparability of Principle and Material Force
- Notes
- GLOSSARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
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