Sarah Phillips Casteel presents the first major study of representations of Jewishness in Caribbean literature. Providing an alternative to U.S.-based critical narratives of Black-Jewish relations,Calypso Jews enriches cross-cultural investigations of Caribbean creolization and reveals a distinctive interdiasporic literature. 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.
