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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      15 July 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511483196
      9780521651066
      9780521658706
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483196
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.375kg, 236 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.29kg, 236 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Literary Theory, European and World Literature: General Interest
      Series:
      Cultural Margins (9)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Literary Theory, European and World Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Cultural Margins (9)
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    A reading of African American and Jewish American writers from Henry Roth and Ralph Ellison to Philip Roth and David Bradley. Reading the work of such writers alongside and through one another, Newton's book offers an original way of juxtaposing two major traditions in modern American literature, and rethinking the sometimes vexed relationship between two constituencies ordinarily confined to sociopolitical or media commentary alone. Newton combines Emmanuel Levinas's ethical philosophy and Walter Benjamin's theory of allegory in shaping an innovative kind of ethical-political criticism. Through artful, dialogical readings of Saul Bellow and Chester Himes, David Mamet and Anna Deavere Smith, and others, Newton seeks to represent American Blacks and Jews outside the distorting mirror of 'Black-Jewish Relations', and restrictive literary histories alike. A final chapter addresses the Black/Jewish dimension of the O. J. Simpson trial.

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    ‘… this is an absorbing and highly intelligent work …’

    Source: Journal of Jewish Studies

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