LEADER 04718nam 22009012 450 001 9910778866203321 005 20151005020624.0 010 $a1-107-11704-6 010 $a0-511-00615-2 010 $a1-280-16200-7 010 $a0-511-11759-0 010 $a0-511-14982-4 010 $a0-511-30300-9 010 $a0-511-48319-8 010 $a0-511-05222-7 035 $a(CKB)111004366731748 035 $a(EBL)202290 035 $a(OCoLC)475917466 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000152817 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11146720 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000152817 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10391551 035 $a(PQKB)11357252 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511483196 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC202290 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL202290 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr2000780 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL16200 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366731748 100 $a20090224d1999|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFacing Black and Jew $eliterature as public space in twentieth-century America /$fAdam Zachary Newton$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d1999. 215 $a1 online resource (xviii, 218 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCultural margins ;$v9 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-65870-5 311 $a0-521-65106-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 204-213) and index. 327 $t"An antiphonal game" and beyond: facing Ralph Ellison and Henry Roth --$t"Jew me sue me don't you black or white me": the (ethical) politics of recognition in Chester Himes and Saul Bellow --$t"Words generally spoil things" and "giving man final say": facing history in David Bradley and Philip Roth --$tLiteraturized Blacks and Jews; or Golems and Tar babies: reality and its shadows in John Edgar Wideman and Bernard Malamud --$tBlack-Jewish inflations: face(off) in David Mamet's Homicide and the O.J. Simpson trial. 330 $aA reading of African American and Jewish American writers from Henry Roth and Ralph Ellison to Philip Roth and David Bradley. Reading the work of such writers alongside and through one another, Newton's book offers an original way of juxtaposing two major traditions in modern American literature, and rethinking the sometimes vexed relationship between two constituencies ordinarily confined to sociopolitical or media commentary alone. Newton combines Emmanuel Levinas's ethical philosophy and Walter Benjamin's theory of allegory in shaping an innovative kind of ethical-political criticism. Through artful, dialogical readings of Saul Bellow and Chester Himes, David Mamet and Anna Deavere Smith, and others, Newton seeks to represent American Blacks and Jews outside the distorting mirror of 'Black-Jewish Relations', and restrictive literary histories alike. A final chapter addresses the Black/Jewish dimension of the O. J. Simpson trial. 410 0$aCultural margins ;$v9. 517 3 $aFacing Black & Jew 606 $aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aJudaism and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAmerican fiction$xJewish authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican American authors$xPolitical and social views 606 $aJewish authors$xPolitical and social views 606 $aJews$zUnited States$xIntellectual life 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRelations with Jews 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aRace relations in literature 606 $aJews in literature 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aJudaism and literature$xHistory 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xJewish authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican American authors$xPolitical and social views. 615 0$aJewish authors$xPolitical and social views. 615 0$aJews$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRelations with Jews. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aRace relations in literature. 615 0$aJews in literature. 676 $a813.009/896073 700 $aNewton$b Adam Zachary$0847006 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778866203321 996 $aFacing Black and Jew$93715302 997 $aUNINA