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

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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Description	1 online resource (xviii, 218 pages).
Series	Cultural margins
	Cultural margins.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-213) and index.
Contents	"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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
	Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Judaism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	American fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
	African American authors -- Political and social views.
	Jewish authors -- Political and social views.
	Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life.
	African Americans -- Relations with Jews.
	African Americans in literature.
	United States -- Race relations.
	Race relations in literature.
	Jews in literature.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
	Amerikaans.
	Schrijvers.
	Zwarten.
	Joden.
	Literatur -- USA -- Afroamerikanische Autoren -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
	Jüdische Literatur -- amerikanische -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
	Prosa.
	Geschichte 1900-1999.
	Roman.
	United States.
	Schwarze.
	Juden.
Other Form:	Print version: Newton, Adam Zachary. Facing Black and Jew. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999 0521651069 (DLC) 98039339 (OCoLC)39727619
ISBN	0511006152 (electronic bk.)
	9780511006159 (electronic bk.)
	0511117590 (electronic bk.)
	9780511117596 (electronic bk.)
	9780511483196 (electronic bk.)
	0511483198 (electronic bk.)

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