Facing Black and Jew: Literature as Public Space in Twentieth-Century America (Cultural Margins, Series Number 9) - Softcover

Newton, Adam Zachary

 
9780521658706: Facing Black and Jew: Literature as Public Space in Twentieth-Century America (Cultural Margins, Series Number 9)
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ISBN 10: 0521658705 ISBN 13: 9780521658706
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Adam Zachary Newton couples works of prose fiction by African American and Jewish American authors from Henry Roth and Ralph Ellison to Philip Roth and David Bradley. Reading the work of such writers alongside and through one another, Newton offers an original way of juxtaposing two major traditions in American literature and rethinking their sometimes vexing relationship. Newton combines Emmanuel Levinas' ethical philosophy and Walter Benjamin's theory of allegory in shaping an innovative kind of ethical-political criticism. A final chapter addresses the Black/Jewish dimension of the O. J. Simpson trial.

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'... this is an absorbing and highly intelligent work ...' Journal of Jewish Studies

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521658705
ISBN 13 
9780521658706
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
236

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