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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "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.