The Sephardic Atlantic - Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

This volume contributes to the growing field of Early Modern Jewish Atlantic History, while stimulating new discussions at the interface between Jewish Studies and Postcolonial Studies. It is a collection of substantive, sophisticated and variegated essays, combining case studies with theoretical reflections, organized into three sections: race and blood, metropoles and colonies, and history and memory. Twelve chapters treat converso slave traders, race and early Afro-Portuguese relations in West Africa, Sephardim and people of color in nineteenth-century Curacao, Portuguese converso/Sephardic imperialist behavior, Caspar Barlaeus' attitude toward Jews in the Sephardic Atlantic, Jewish-Creole historiography in eighteenth-century Suriname, Savannah's eighteenth-century Sephardic community in an Altantic setting, Freemasonry and Sephardim in the British Empire, the figure of Columbus in popular literature about the Caribbean, key works of Caribbean postcolonial literature on Sephardim, the holocaust, slavery and race, Canadian Jewish identity in the reception history of Esther Brandeau/Jacques La Fargue and Moroccan-Jewish memories of a sixteenth-century Portuguese military defeat.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	April 2019
First published:	2018
Editors:	Sina Rauschenbach • Jonathan Schorsch
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	395
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-99195-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General Books > History > European history > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General Promotions
LSN:	3-319-99195-7
Barcode:	9783319991955

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