Book Description
Explores the works of leading black and Jewish writers from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Author : E. Miller Budick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 1998-09-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521635752
Explores the works of leading black and Jewish writers from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Author : Ethan Goffman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,11 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791492079
Imagining Each Other explores Black-Jewish relations by examining the complex ways they have portrayed each other in recent American literature. It illuminates their dramatic alliances and conflicts and their dilemmas of identity and assimilation, and addresses the persistent questions of ethnic division and economic inequality that have so encompassed the Black-Jewish narrative in America. Focusing primarily on the 1960s and its aftermath, the book reveals how Jewish and African Americans view each other through a complex dialectic of identification and difference, channeled by ever-shifting positions within American society. Through the works of Richard Wright, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Amiri Baraka, Paule Marshall, Grace Paley, and others, Goffman unfolds a story of two peoples with powerful biblical and mythic connections that replay themselves in contemporary circumstances. In doing so, he uncovers layers of meaning in works that dramatize this turbulent, paradoxical relationship, and reveals how this relationship is paradigmatic of multicultural American self-invention.
Author : Adam Zachary Newton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 28,52 MB
Release : 1999-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521658706
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.
Author : Johnson
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 2024-04
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ISBN : 1647124468
Author : Willis Barnstone
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,72 MB
Release : 2004-06-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 025311022X
A central theme of this memoir by poet and translator Willis Barnstone is that of labels -- names, ethnicities, all distinctions that cause suspicion, anger, and destruction. A fresh and significant contribution to American letters, We Jews and Blacks wrestles with problems of identity, difference, and the human condition. It is a dramatic, whimsical, and literary work that also contains a number of Barnstone's poems, which offer a second view of an event, a crystallization of his thinking, both sorrowful and joyful. The book includes a dialogue with Yusef Komunyakaa and a small selection of his poems.
Author : Paul Berman
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,9 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN :
From the editor of Debating P.C. comes an impressive new anthology of essays and historical perspectives on the long, ambivalent, historically complex, and often volatile relationship between American Jews and African Americans. Contributors include James Baldwin, Cynthia Ozick, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Julius Lester, and others.
Author : Jonathan Schorsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 27,23 MB
Release : 2004-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521820219
This book offers the first in-depth treatment of Jewish images of and behavior toward Blacks during the period of peak Jewish involvement in Atlantic slave-holding.
Author : Jonathan Freedman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 24,68 MB
Release : 2008-01-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0231512341
Klezmer is a continually evolving musical tradition that grows out of Eastern European Jewish culture, and its changes reflect Jews' interaction with other groups as well as their shifting relations to their own history. But what happens when, in the klezmer spirit, the performances that go into the making of Jewishness come into contact with those that build different forms of cultural identity? Jonathan Freedman argues that terms central to the Jewish experience in America, notions like "the immigrant," the "ethnic," and even the "model minority," have worked and continue to intertwine the Jewish-American with the experiences, histories, and imaginative productions of Latinos, Asians, African Americans, and gays and lesbians, among others. He traces these relationships in a number of arenas: the crossover between jazz and klezmer and its consequences in Philip Roth's The Human Stain; the relationship between Jewishness and queer identity in Tony Kushner's Angels in America; fictions concerning crypto-Jews in Cuba and the Mexican-American borderland; the connection between Jews and Christian apocalyptic narratives; stories of "new immigrants" by Bharathi Mukherjee, Gish Jen, Lan Samantha Chang, and Gary Shteyngart; and the revisionary relation of these authors to the classic Jewish American immigrant narratives of Henry Roth, Bernard Malamud, and Saul Bellow. By interrogating the fraught and multidimensional uses of Jews, Judaism, and Jewishness, Freedman deepens our understanding of ethnoracial complexities.
Author : Rebecca Walker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,83 MB
Release : 2005-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1101647566
The Civil Rights movement brought author Alice Walker and lawyer Mel Leventhal together, and in 1969 their daughter, Rebecca, was born. Some saw this unusual copper-colored girl as an outrage or an oddity; others viewed her as a symbol of harmony, a triumph of love over hate. But after her parents divorced, leaving her a lonely only child ferrying between two worlds that only seemed to grow further apart, Rebecca was no longer sure what she represented. In this book, Rebecca Leventhal Walker attempts to define herself as a soul instead of a symbol—and offers a new look at the challenge of personal identity, in a story at once strikingly unique and truly universal.
Author : Catherine Rottenberg
Publisher : Suny Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,49 MB
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438445229
Comprehensive analysis of how Harlem and the Lower East Side have been depicted over the course of the twentieth century in African American and Jewish American literature.