Blacks and Jews in literary conversation / Emily Miller Budick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Budick, E. Miller, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 120.

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 120

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

African American authors--Political and social views.

African American authors.

Judaism and literature--United States--History.

Judaism and literature.

Jewish authors--Political and social views.

Jewish authors.

Jews--United States--Intellectual life.

Jews.

African Americans--Relations with Jews.

African Americans.

African Americans in literature.

Race relations in literature.

Jews in literature.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 252 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Blacks & Jews in Literary Conversation

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation explores the works of a range of black and Jewish writers, critics, and academics from the 1950s to the 1980s. By recording conversations both direct, 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, this book shows how dialogue can engender misperceptions and misunderstandings, and how blacks and Jews in America have both sought and resisted assimilation. By analyzing the history of this discourse, the author explores the ways in which ethnic fiction works in interethnic America, the effects of identity politics, and the tensions and bonds created as African and Jewish Americans continue to construct their ethnic and religious identities in the United States.

Contents:

Introduction

Mutual textual criticism of Black-Jewish identity

Crisis and commentary in African-Jewish American relations

Race, homeland, and the construction of Jewish American identity

Cultural autonomy, supersessionism, and the Jew in African American fiction

'The anguish of the other'

On the mutual displacements, appropriations, and accommodations of culture.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-00479-6

0-511-58520-9