With what may seem surprising frequency, Caribbean writers have turned to Jewish Caribbean experiences of exodus and reinvention, from the arrival of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal in
Casteel (English, Carleton U.) analyzes works by diasporic writers and artists from North America and the Caribbean--Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, Jamaica Kincaid, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Joy Kog
Diaspora studies have tended to privilege urban landscapes over rural ones, wanting to avoid the racial homogeneity, conservatism, and xenophobia usually associated with the latter. In Second Arrivals
