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Facing Black and Jew: Literature as Public Space in Twentieth-Century America (Cultural Margins)

By Adam Zachary Newton

Book information

Year
1999
ISBN
0521651069, 9780521651066, 9780511006159
LCC
PS153.N5 N48 1999
Open Library ID
OL377338M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1013 kB (1037468 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
236\238
Topic
Literature Literary
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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