UID:
almahu_9947414138002882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xviii, 218 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511483196 (ebook)
Serie:
Cultural margins ; 9
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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"An antiphonal game" and beyond: facing Ralph Ellison and Henry Roth --
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"Jew me sue me don't you black or white me": the (ethical) politics of recognition in Chester Himes and Saul Bellow --
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"Words generally spoil things" and "giving man final say": facing history in David Bradley and Philip Roth --
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Literaturized Blacks and Jews; or Golems and Tar babies: reality and its shadows in John Edgar Wideman and Bernard Malamud --
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Black-Jewish inflations: face(off) in David Mamet's Homicide and the O.J. Simpson trial.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 9780521651066
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483196
URL:
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