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Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1998
ISBN
0521631947, 9780521631945
LCC
PS153.N5 B83 1998
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (7912121 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Pages
264\265
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In an attempt to lend a more nuanced ear to the ongoing dialogue between African and Jewish Americans, Emily Budick examines the works of a range of writers, critics, and academics from the 1950s through the 1980s. This study records conversations both explicit, such as essays and letters, and indirect, such as the fiction of Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Alice Walker, Cynthia Ozick, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin. The purpose is to understand how this dialogue has engendered misperceptions and misunderstandings, and how blacks and Jews in America have both sought and resisted assimilation.

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