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

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 dime...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Newton, Adam Zachary
Otros Autores: Brennan, Timothy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Colección:Cultural margins.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 An antiphonal gameŽ and beyond: facing Ralph Ellison and Henry Roth; 2 "Jew me sue me don't you black or white meŽ: The (ethical) politics of recognition in Chester Himes and Saul Bellow; 3 Words generally spoil thingsŽ and Giving a man final sayŽ: 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.