Sarah Phillips Casteel is professor of English at Carleton University, where she is cross-appointed to the Institute of African Studies, and a member of the Holocaust Educational Foundation’s Academic Council. Her most recent books are Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination (Columbia, 2016) and the coedited volume Caribbean Jewish Crossings: Literary History and Creative Practice (2019).

Sarah Phillips Casteel’s beautifully written Black Lives Under Nazism offers a startling new account of the memory of World War II and the Holocaust that centers Black artists and writers. Moving from internment camp art and memoirs by historical eyewitnesses to the novels, photography, and dance of later generations, Casteel’s book reveals how certain histories are rendered invisible while simultaneously showing us the power of art and literature to reanimate the forgotten past and decolonize hegemonic perspectives. Black Lives Under Nazism is a fascinating work of recovery and a strong argument for a relational approach to memory.

• Preface and AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Invisible and Invented ArchivesPart I: Documenting the Past: The Artist as WitnessIntroduction to Part I1. Outside the Frame: Josef Nassy’s Visual Diary of Internment in Nazi Germany2. Broken Citizenship: Survivor Memoirs by Hans J. Massaquoi, Theodor Michael, and John WilliamPart II: Imagining the Past: The Artist as HistorianIntroduction to Part II3. Jazz Fiction and the Holocaust: Testimonial Objects in the Novels of John A. Williams and Esi Edugyan4. Performing to Survive: “Queen of the Trumpet” Valaida Snow in Fiction, Drama, and Graphic Narrative5. Postmemorial Landscapes of Black Europe: Maud Sulter’s Alpine PhotomontagesCoda: Dancing Out History in Oxana Chi’s Durch Gärten TanzenNotesBibliographyIndex

Sarah Phillips Casteel is professor of English at Carleton University, where she is cross-appointed to the Institute of African Studies, and a member of the Holocaust Educational Foundation’s Academic Council. Her most recent books are Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination (Columbia, 2016) and the coedited volume Caribbean Jewish Crossings: Literary History and Creative Practice (2019).

Sarah Phillips Casteel’s beautifully written Black Lives Under Nazism offers a startling new account of the memory of World War II and the Holocaust that centers Black artists and writers. Moving from internment camp art and memoirs by historical eyewitnesses to the novels, photography, and dance of later generations, Casteel’s book reveals how certain histories are rendered invisible while simultaneously showing us the power of art and literature to reanimate the forgotten past and decolonize hegemonic perspectives. Black Lives Under Nazism is a fascinating work of recovery and a strong argument for a relational approach to memory.

• Preface and AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Invisible and Invented ArchivesPart I: Documenting the Past: The Artist as WitnessIntroduction to Part I1. Outside the Frame: Josef Nassy’s Visual Diary of Internment in Nazi Germany2. Broken Citizenship: Survivor Memoirs by Hans J. Massaquoi, Theodor Michael, and John WilliamPart II: Imagining the Past: The Artist as HistorianIntroduction to Part II3. Jazz Fiction and the Holocaust: Testimonial Objects in the Novels of John A. Williams and Esi Edugyan4. Performing to Survive: “Queen of the Trumpet” Valaida Snow in Fiction, Drama, and Graphic Narrative5. Postmemorial Landscapes of Black Europe: Maud Sulter’s Alpine PhotomontagesCoda: Dancing Out History in Oxana Chi’s Durch Gärten TanzenNotesBibliographyIndex