From: aruprech-AT-ccs.carleton.ca (Alvina Ruprecht)
Subject: Re: Jews and postcolonialism
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 18:25:10 -0500 (EST)


Russell McDougall writes:
> 
> Beth,
> 
> How could I forget? (People who know me will see the irony, I'm sure.) Do
> check out the monumental novel by Xavier Herbert, Poor Fellow My Country,
> for complex (white) identifications of Aborigiality with Jews in Australia -
> the questionable notion of tribal relgiion, etc. 
> 
>         Russell
> 
> At 09:06 AM 4/04/97 -0800, you wrote:

======================================================Dear Beth, Jews appear often in the literature of teh Francophone Caribbean..
 Maryse Conde..Tituba..sorciere noire de Salem...in and certain texts by
Edouard Glissant...the figure is often the prewar european stereotype of
the quasi-Hassidic figure, in dark clothes, and a long beard living in a
traditional way and mistrusting everyone else.
In this context, the book by R. Cohen, Jews in another place- is very
entlightening. It 
analyses the insertion of the jewish immigrant populatioin in the Dutch
colonies of the Caribbean showing how the stereotypical figure of Central
european origin as it is transplanted into the Caribbean setting by
contemproary novellists, does not mean anything anymore, since the jewish
population has adpated to its new surroundings, like any other
group. Alvina Ruprecht
============================================================ >Dear Listmembers,
> >I am interested in works that deal with Jews and 
> >colonialism/postcolonialism, both within primary works and, if it has 
> >been written about, in critical work. I am beginning a project that deals 
> >with the way postcolonial writers use the Jew as a figure within their 
> >representations of postcolonial experience (Anita Desai's _Baumgartner's 
> >Bombay_, for example). I wonder if Desai's work is the rare occasion, or 
> >if perhaps there are other things going on. Thank you for your response.
> >
> >Beth C. Rosenberg
> >
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