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Facing Black and Jew : literature as public space in twentieth-century America /
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 literatur...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Cultural margins.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 218 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-213) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511006152 9780511006159 9780521651066 0521651069 9780521658706 0521658705 0511117590 9780511117596 9780511483196 0511483198 1107117046 9781107117044 1280162007 9781280162008 0511149824 9780511149825 0511303009 9780511303005 0511052227 9780511052224 |