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.