04714nam 2200865Ia 450 991080815790332120240417035915.00-7914-9207-9(CKB)2670000000233687(EBL)3408011(SSID)ssj0000607284(PQKBManifestationID)11386220(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000607284(PQKBWorkID)10584204(PQKB)10711538(OCoLC)794701308(MdBmJHUP)muse13947(Au-PeEL)EBL3408011(CaPaEBR)ebr10587210(DE-B1597)682575(DE-B1597)9780791492079(MiAaPQ)EBC3408011(EXLCZ)99267000000023368719991020d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrImagining each other Blacks and Jews in contemporary American literature /Ethan Goffman1st ed.Albany State University of New York Press20001 online resource (279 p.)SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and CultureSUNY series in modern Jewish literature and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-7914-4678-6 0-7914-4677-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-251) and index.""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Monologues and Dialogues""; ""Black (E)Masculinity and Anti-Semitism""; ""Jewish Assimilationism""; ""Ambivalent Estrangements""; ""Burning Bridges""; ""Jewish Backlash""; ""Aftermaths""; ""A New Dispensation""; ""Fragmentation and Multiculturalism""; ""Parallels and Paralysis""; ""Glossary""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Back Matter""Imagining Each Other explores Black-Jewish relations by examining the complex ways they have portrayed each other in recent American literature. It illuminates their dramatic alliances and conflicts and their dilemmas of identity and assimilation, and addresses the persistent questions of ethnic division and economic inequality that have so encompassed the Black-Jewish narrative in America. Focusing primarily on the 1960s and its aftermath, the book reveals how Jewish and African Americans view each other through a complex dialectic of identification and difference, channeled by ever-shifting positions within American society. Through the works of Richard Wright, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Amiri Baraka, Paule Marshall, Grace Paley, and others, Goffman unfolds a story of two peoples with powerful biblical and mythic connections that replay themselves in contemporary circumstances. In doing so, he uncovers layers of meaning in works that dramatize this turbulent, paradoxical relationship, and reveals how this relationship is paradigmatic of multicultural American self-invention.SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and CultureAfrican Americans in literatureAfrican AmericansRelations with JewsAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literatureJewish authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismBlack people in literatureBlack peopleRelations with JewsEthnic relations in literatureJews in literatureJudaism and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryRace relations in literatureAfrican Americans in literature.African AmericansRelations with Jews.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureJewish authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Black people in literature.Black peopleRelations with Jews.Ethnic relations in literature.Jews in literature.Judaism and literatureHistoryLiterature and societyHistoryRace relations in literature.810.9/355Goffman Ethan1961-1635863MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808157903321Imagining each other3976847UNINA