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Facing Black and Jew :Literature as ...

Brennan, Timothy.

Facing Black and Jew :Literature as Public Space in Twentieth-Century America.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Facing Black and Jew :
Reminder of title:	Literature as Public Space in Twentieth-Century America.
Author:	Newton, Adam Zachary.
other author:	Brennan, Timothy.
Published:	Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,1999.
Description:	238 p.
Subject:	American fiction.
Online resource:	Click here to view book
ISBN:	9780511483196 (electronic bk.)

Facing Black and Jew :Literature as Public Space in Twentieth-Century America.
Newton, Adam Zachary.

Facing Black and Jew :Literature as Public Space in Twentieth-Century America.[electronic resource]. - Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,1999. - 238 p.

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 “An antiphonal game” and beyond: facing Ralph Ellison and Henry Roth; 2 "Jew me sue me don’t you black or white me”: The (ethical) politics of recognition in Chester Himes and Saul Bellow; 3 “Words generally spoil things” and “Giving a man final say”: facing history in David Bradley and Philip Roth; 4 Literaturized Blacks and Jews; or, golems and Tar babies: reality and its shadows in John Edgar Wideman and Bernard Malamud

Reading the work of African American and Jewish American authors alongside and through one another, Adam Zachary Newton offers an original way of juxtaposing two major traditions in American literature and rethinking their sometimes vexed relationship. A final chapter addresses the Black/Jewish dimension of the O. J. Simpson trial.

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Available via World Wide Web.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780511483196 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

323663
American fiction.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PS153.N5 N48 1999eb

Dewey Class. No.: 813.009896073

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