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Imagining each other : Blacks and Jews in contemporary American literature /
Ch. 2 (p. 25-48), "Black (E)Masculinity and Anti-Semitism", discusses Black stereotypes of Jews, who were largely identified with Whites, as oppressors. States that antisemitism is linked to Black self-hatred. Notes that stereotypes of Jews in Black literature were less acceptable than tho...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2000.
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| Colección: | SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Ch. 2 (p. 25-48), "Black (E)Masculinity and Anti-Semitism", discusses Black stereotypes of Jews, who were largely identified with Whites, as oppressors. States that antisemitism is linked to Black self-hatred. Notes that stereotypes of Jews in Black literature were less acceptable than those of Blacks in Jewish literature. Ch. 5 (p. 91-110), "Burning Bridges: Black Nationalism and Anti-Semitism", shows how, in the late 1960s, questioning of liberal assumptions about U.S. society led to Black nationalists' viewing Jews as paternalistic, self-interested, and largely responsible for oppression of Blacks. Black nationalist literature, e.g. that of LeRoi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka), was rife with antisemitic stereotypes. After the 1960s a hybrid African-American literature developed, more differentiated in regard to Jews. Ch. 6 (p. 111-141), "Jewish Backlash", presents Saul Bellow's "Mr. Sammler's Planet" (1970) and Bernard Malamud's "The Tenants" (1971) as Jewish reactions to threats raised by the Black Arts Movement and Black nationalists. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 262 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-251) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780791492079 0791492079 9780791446782 0791446786 |