Sarah Phillips Casteel
Biographic Data
| ID | 502015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Phillips Casteel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah Phillips |
| FAMILY NAME | Casteel |
| SIGNATURE | CASTEEL S P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Black Lives Under Nazism
Holocaust refugees in the colonial world
Once We Were Slaves
Outside the Frame
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s largely unknown Josef Nassy Collection is situated at the intersection of multiple cultural histories of migration and oppression. Josef Nassy (1904–76) was an artist of African, Sephardi, and European descent from the Dutch Caribbean colony of Suriname. While interned in Belgium and Germany from 1942–45, he created a poignant visual diary that brings into view unfamiliar facets of the Nazi camp syste…
The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
Making History Visible
While interned by the Nazis in Belgium and Bavaria during World War II, the little-known Surinamese artist Josef Nassy (1904-76) created a series of paintings and drawings documenting his experiences and those of other black prisoners. Nassy's artworks uniquely register the presence of Caribbean, African, and African American prisoners in the Nazi camp system. While the Nassy Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum cannot render…
Jazz Fiction and the Holocaust
This article draws attention to a body of fiction that expands our understanding of the Holocaust by imaginatively reconstructing the neglected experiences of Black victims of Nazi persecution. Two key examples are John A. Williams’ Clifford’s Blues (1999) and Esi Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues (2011), both of which recall the Black jazz musicians in wartime Europe caught up in the Nazis’ genocidal campaign. Seeking to integrate their stories into th…
Sounding the Break
Jason Frydman's Sounding the Break: African American and Caribbean Routes of World Literature offers a valuable and timely corrective to the world literature paradigm that has lately overtaken the discipline of literary studies. Published in the University of Virginia Press's New World Studies series, Sounding the Break argues that in a “reciprocal oversight” (9), African American and Caribbean writers' engagements with world literature have been…
Space and Place in Jewish Studies
Barbara E. Mann’s important new book, Space and Place in Jewish Studies, persuasively argues for the value of space as a critical category for Jewish studies. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Mann’s contribution to the Key Words in Jewish Studies series from Rutgers University Press offers a rich and carefully historicized meditation on the relevance of contemporary spatial theory to Jewish cultural analysis. Mann’s book explores what…
Calypso Jews
The first major study of representations of Jewishness in Caribbean literature bridges the gap between postcolonial and Jewish studies and enriches cross-cultural investigations of Caribbean creolization
David Dabydeen’s Hogarth
Eighteenth-century satirical artist William Hogarth figures centrally in Guyanese writer David Dabydeen’s ekphrastic postcolonial fiction. In particular, Dabydeen’s novels A Harlot’s Progress and Johnson’s Dictionary invoke plate 2 of Hogarth’s 1732 series A Harlot’s Progress , which depicts the encounter of a cuckolded Jewish merchant, his mistress, and a turbaned slave boy. In this article, I argue that Dabydeen’s strategy of introducing visual…
Port and Plantation Jews in Contemporary Slavery Fiction of the Americas
Port and Plantation Jews in Contemporary Slavery Fiction of the Americas Sarah Phillips Casteel (bio) When Toni Morrison dedicated her landmark work of slavery fiction Beloved (1987) to "Sixty Million and more," her apparent reference to the Nazi genocide sparked a debate that has larger implications for the literary representation of Blacks and Jews. Beloved's dedication and the surrounding controversy are underpinned by a logic that Michael Rot…
Calypso Jews
This essay examines the representation of Holocaust refugees in novels by Caribbean authors John Hearne and Jamaica Kincaid. Drawing on refugee memoirs as well as calypsos from the late 1930s, it reads Hearne’s and Kincaid’s novels against the background of a little known chapter of Holocaust history in which Jewish refugees found safe haven in Trinidad and other parts of the Caribbean. It argues that Hearne’s and Kincaid’s stagings of the Black-…
Sephardism and Marranism in Native American Fiction of the Quincentenary
Journal Article Sephardism and Marranism in Native American Fiction of the Quincentenary Get access Sarah Phillips Casteel Sarah Phillips Casteel Carleton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 37, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 59–81, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2012.0031 Published: 01 June 2012
Migrant Sites
In his 1994 essay “Diasporas,” James Clifford reminds us that “the term diaspora is a signifier, not simply of transnationality and movement, but of political struggles to define the local, as a distinctive community, in historical contexts of displacement” (qtd. in Migrant Sites, 38). This insight is central to Dalia Kandiyoti's Migrant Sites: America, Place, and Diaspora Literatures, an elegant and compelling new study that invites us to consid…
Jews among the Indians
Jews among the Indians:The Fantasy of Indigenization in Mordecai Richler's and Michael Chabon's Northern Narratives Sarah Phillips Casteel (bio) It seems to make no difference at all, descendants of East European Jews or Dublin Irish, at home and abroad, everyone who thinks of himself as being in some sense an American feels the stirrings in him of a second soul, the soul of the Red Man. Leslie A. Fiedler, The Return of the Vanishing American In …
Introduction
Canada has long been overlooked in scholarship about the Americas, which has more typically focused on relationships between the USA and Latin America. This special issue seeks to redress this imbalance by locating Canada within the history and culture of the Americas and, in so doing, to provide a compelling rationale for the inclusion of Canada in current articulations of a hemispheric American Studies. While mindful of the danger that a hemisp…
New World Pastoral
At first glance, the Caribbean garden seems an unlikely candidate for a site in which to think through contemporary debates surrounding place and identity. The garden is readily assimilable neither to a postmodern reading of space, nor to contemporary discussions of Caribbean identity which are profoundly suspicious of New World pastoral narratives. Yet two novels by Gisèle Pineau and Shani Mootoo demonstrate that the garden offers significant ad…
Eva Hoffman's Double Emigration
Lost in Translation, Eva Hoffman's 1989 account of her family's difficult emigration from Poland to Canada and her own subsequent immigration to the United States, is described in the back cover blurb as "A classically American chronicle of upward mobility and assimilation" (emphasis added). Ignoring the fact that almost a third of Lost in Translation takes place in Canada, critics have also tended to classify the book as American immigrant autob…
Autobiography as Rewriting
Introduction
Canada has long been overlooked in scholarship about the Americas, which has more typically focused on relationships between the USA and Latin America. This special issue seeks to redress this imbalance by locating Canada within the history and culture of the Americas and, in so doing, to provide a compelling rationale for the inclusion of Canada in current articulations of a hemispheric American Studies. While mindful of the danger that a hemisp…
Space and Place in Jewish Studies
Barbara E. Mann’s important new book, Space and Place in Jewish Studies, persuasively argues for the value of space as a critical category for Jewish studies. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Mann’s contribution to the Key Words in Jewish Studies series from Rutgers University Press offers a rich and carefully historicized meditation on the relevance of contemporary spatial theory to Jewish cultural analysis. Mann’s book explores what…
New World Pastoral
At first glance, the Caribbean garden seems an unlikely candidate for a site in which to think through contemporary debates surrounding place and identity. The garden is readily assimilable neither to a postmodern reading of space, nor to contemporary discussions of Caribbean identity which are profoundly suspicious of New World pastoral narratives. Yet two novels by Gisèle Pineau and Shani Mootoo demonstrate that the garden offers significant ad…
David Dabydeen’s Hogarth
Eighteenth-century satirical artist William Hogarth figures centrally in Guyanese writer David Dabydeen’s ekphrastic postcolonial fiction. In particular, Dabydeen’s novels A Harlot’s Progress and Johnson’s Dictionary invoke plate 2 of Hogarth’s 1732 series A Harlot’s Progress , which depicts the encounter of a cuckolded Jewish merchant, his mistress, and a turbaned slave boy. In this article, I argue that Dabydeen’s strategy of introducing visual…
Eva Hoffman's Double Emigration
Lost in Translation, Eva Hoffman's 1989 account of her family's difficult emigration from Poland to Canada and her own subsequent immigration to the United States, is described in the back cover blurb as "A classically American chronicle of upward mobility and assimilation" (emphasis added). Ignoring the fact that almost a third of Lost in Translation takes place in Canada, critics have also tended to classify the book as American immigrant autob…
Autobiography as Rewriting
Autobiography as Rewriting
Eva Hoffman's Double Emigration
Lost in Translation, Eva Hoffman's 1989 account of her family's difficult emigration from Poland to Canada and her own subsequent immigration to the United States, is described in the back cover blurb as "A classically American chronicle of upward mobility and assimilation" (emphasis added). Ignoring the fact that almost a third of Lost in Translation takes place in Canada, critics have also tended to classify the book as American immigrant autob…
New World Pastoral
At first glance, the Caribbean garden seems an unlikely candidate for a site in which to think through contemporary debates surrounding place and identity. The garden is readily assimilable neither to a postmodern reading of space, nor to contemporary discussions of Caribbean identity which are profoundly suspicious of New World pastoral narratives. Yet two novels by Gisèle Pineau and Shani Mootoo demonstrate that the garden offers significant ad…
Introduction
Canada has long been overlooked in scholarship about the Americas, which has more typically focused on relationships between the USA and Latin America. This special issue seeks to redress this imbalance by locating Canada within the history and culture of the Americas and, in so doing, to provide a compelling rationale for the inclusion of Canada in current articulations of a hemispheric American Studies. While mindful of the danger that a hemisp…
Jews among the Indians
Jews among the Indians:The Fantasy of Indigenization in Mordecai Richler's and Michael Chabon's Northern Narratives Sarah Phillips Casteel (bio) It seems to make no difference at all, descendants of East European Jews or Dublin Irish, at home and abroad, everyone who thinks of himself as being in some sense an American feels the stirrings in him of a second soul, the soul of the Red Man. Leslie A. Fiedler, The Return of the Vanishing American In …
Sephardism and Marranism in Native American Fiction of the Quincentenary
Journal Article Sephardism and Marranism in Native American Fiction of the Quincentenary Get access Sarah Phillips Casteel Sarah Phillips Casteel Carleton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 37, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 59–81, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2012.0031 Published: 01 June 2012
Migrant Sites
In his 1994 essay “Diasporas,” James Clifford reminds us that “the term diaspora is a signifier, not simply of transnationality and movement, but of political struggles to define the local, as a distinctive community, in historical contexts of displacement” (qtd. in Migrant Sites, 38). This insight is central to Dalia Kandiyoti's Migrant Sites: America, Place, and Diaspora Literatures, an elegant and compelling new study that invites us to consid…
Calypso Jews
This essay examines the representation of Holocaust refugees in novels by Caribbean authors John Hearne and Jamaica Kincaid. Drawing on refugee memoirs as well as calypsos from the late 1930s, it reads Hearne’s and Kincaid’s novels against the background of a little known chapter of Holocaust history in which Jewish refugees found safe haven in Trinidad and other parts of the Caribbean. It argues that Hearne’s and Kincaid’s stagings of the Black-…
Port and Plantation Jews in Contemporary Slavery Fiction of the Americas
Port and Plantation Jews in Contemporary Slavery Fiction of the Americas Sarah Phillips Casteel (bio) When Toni Morrison dedicated her landmark work of slavery fiction Beloved (1987) to "Sixty Million and more," her apparent reference to the Nazi genocide sparked a debate that has larger implications for the literary representation of Blacks and Jews. Beloved's dedication and the surrounding controversy are underpinned by a logic that Michael Rot…
David Dabydeen’s Hogarth
Eighteenth-century satirical artist William Hogarth figures centrally in Guyanese writer David Dabydeen’s ekphrastic postcolonial fiction. In particular, Dabydeen’s novels A Harlot’s Progress and Johnson’s Dictionary invoke plate 2 of Hogarth’s 1732 series A Harlot’s Progress , which depicts the encounter of a cuckolded Jewish merchant, his mistress, and a turbaned slave boy. In this article, I argue that Dabydeen’s strategy of introducing visual…
Calypso Jews
The first major study of representations of Jewishness in Caribbean literature bridges the gap between postcolonial and Jewish studies and enriches cross-cultural investigations of Caribbean creolization
Space and Place in Jewish Studies
Barbara E. Mann’s important new book, Space and Place in Jewish Studies, persuasively argues for the value of space as a critical category for Jewish studies. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Mann’s contribution to the Key Words in Jewish Studies series from Rutgers University Press offers a rich and carefully historicized meditation on the relevance of contemporary spatial theory to Jewish cultural analysis. Mann’s book explores what…
Sounding the Break
Jason Frydman's Sounding the Break: African American and Caribbean Routes of World Literature offers a valuable and timely corrective to the world literature paradigm that has lately overtaken the discipline of literary studies. Published in the University of Virginia Press's New World Studies series, Sounding the Break argues that in a “reciprocal oversight” (9), African American and Caribbean writers' engagements with world literature have been…
Jazz Fiction and the Holocaust
This article draws attention to a body of fiction that expands our understanding of the Holocaust by imaginatively reconstructing the neglected experiences of Black victims of Nazi persecution. Two key examples are John A. Williams’ Clifford’s Blues (1999) and Esi Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues (2011), both of which recall the Black jazz musicians in wartime Europe caught up in the Nazis’ genocidal campaign. Seeking to integrate their stories into th…
Outside the Frame
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s largely unknown Josef Nassy Collection is situated at the intersection of multiple cultural histories of migration and oppression. Josef Nassy (1904–76) was an artist of African, Sephardi, and European descent from the Dutch Caribbean colony of Suriname. While interned in Belgium and Germany from 1942–45, he created a poignant visual diary that brings into view unfamiliar facets of the Nazi camp syste…
The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
Making History Visible
While interned by the Nazis in Belgium and Bavaria during World War II, the little-known Surinamese artist Josef Nassy (1904-76) created a series of paintings and drawings documenting his experiences and those of other black prisoners. Nassy's artworks uniquely register the presence of Caribbean, African, and African American prisoners in the Nazi camp system. While the Nassy Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum cannot render…
Holocaust refugees in the colonial world
Once We Were Slaves
Black Lives Under Nazism
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