04619nam 2200889 a 450 991081867930332120200520144314.01-107-11704-60-511-00615-21-280-16200-70-511-11759-00-511-14982-40-511-30300-90-511-48319-80-511-05222-7(CKB)111004366731748(EBL)202290(OCoLC)475917466(SSID)ssj0000152817(PQKBManifestationID)11146720(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000152817(PQKBWorkID)10391551(PQKB)11357252(UkCbUP)CR9780511483196(MiAaPQ)EBC202290(Au-PeEL)EBL202290(CaPaEBR)ebr2000780(CaONFJC)MIL16200(EXLCZ)9911100436673174819980812d1999 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFacing Black and Jew literature as public space in twentieth-century America /Adam Zachary Newton1st ed.Cambridge, UK ;New York, NY, USA Cambridge University Press19991 online resource (xviii, 218 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cultural marginsTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-65870-5 0-521-65106-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-213) and index."An antiphonal game" and beyond: facing Ralph Ellison and Henry Roth --"Jew me sue me don't you black or white me": the (ethical) politics of recognition in Chester Himes and Saul Bellow --"Words generally spoil things" and "giving man final say": facing history in David Bradley and Philip Roth --Literaturized Blacks and Jews; or Golems and Tar babies: reality and its shadows in John Edgar Wideman and Bernard Malamud --Black-Jewish inflations: face(off) in David Mamet's Homicide and the O.J. Simpson trial.A reading of African American and Jewish American writers from Henry Roth and Ralph Ellison to Philip Roth and David Bradley. Reading the work of such writers alongside and through one another, Newton's book offers an original way of juxtaposing two major traditions in modern American literature, and rethinking the sometimes vexed relationship between two constituencies ordinarily confined to sociopolitical or media commentary alone. Newton combines Emmanuel Levinas's ethical philosophy and Walter Benjamin's theory of allegory in shaping an innovative kind of ethical-political criticism. Through artful, dialogical readings of Saul Bellow and Chester Himes, David Mamet and Anna Deavere Smith, and others, Newton seeks to represent American Blacks and Jews outside the distorting mirror of 'Black-Jewish Relations', and restrictive literary histories alike. A final chapter addresses the Black/Jewish dimension of the O. J. Simpson trial.Cultural margins.American fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryJudaism and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican fictionJewish authorsHistory and criticismAfrican American authorsPolitical and social viewsJewish authorsPolitical and social viewsAfrican AmericansRelations with JewsAfrican Americans in literatureRace relations in literatureJews in literatureUnited StatesRace relationsAmerican fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.Literature and societyHistoryJudaism and literatureHistoryAmerican fictionJewish authorsHistory and criticism.African American authorsPolitical and social views.Jewish authorsPolitical and social views.African AmericansRelations with Jews.African Americans in literature.Race relations in literature.Jews in literature.813.009/896073Newton Adam Zachary847006MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818679303321Facing Black and Jew4107504UNINA