Imagining each other : Blacks and Jews in contemporary American literature

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Imagining each other : Blacks and Jews in contemporary American literature

Ethan Goffman

(SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture)

State University of New York Press, 2000

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-251) and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Monologues and Dialogues 2. Black (E)Masculinity and Anti-Semitism 3. Jewish Assimilationism: White Lies and Black Eyes 4. Ambivalent Estrangements: Jewish Role Models and Black Liberalism 5. Burning Bridges: Black Nationalism and Anti-Semitism 6. Jewish Backlash: The Return of the Black Primitive 7. Aftermaths: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Diversity 8. A New Dispensation 9. Fragmentation and Multiculturalism 10. Parallels and Paralysis Glossary: A Few Fictions Defines Notes Bibliography Index

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