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Facing Black and Jew : = literature as public space in twentieth-century America /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Facing Black and Jew :/ Adam Zachary Newton.
Reminder of title:	literature as public space in twentieth-century America /
remainder title:	Facing Black & Jew
Author:	Newton, Adam Zachary,
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 218 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	American fiction - African American authors -
Subject:	United States - Defenses -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483196
ISBN:	9780511483196 (ebook)

Facing Black and Jew : = literature as public space in twentieth-century America /
Newton, Adam Zachary,

Facing Black and Jew :literature as public space in twentieth-century America /Facing Black & JewAdam Zachary Newton. - 1 online resource (xviii, 218 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cultural margins ;9. - Cultural margins ;9..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

"An antiphonal game" and beyond: facing Ralph Ellison and Henry Roth --

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.

ISBN: 9780511483196 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

562073
American fiction
--African American authorsSubjects--Geographical Terms:

528513
United States
--Defenses

LC Class. No.: PS153.N5 / N48 1999

Dewey Class. No.: 813.009/896073

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