Blacks and jews in literary conversation

Resource Information

The work Blacks and jews in literary conversation represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Blacks and jews in literary conversation

Statement of responsibility

Emily Miller Budick

Creator

• Budick, E. Miller

Subject

• African Americans -- Relations with Jews
• African Americans in literature
• American fiction -- African American authors | History and criticism
• American fiction -- Jewish authors | History and criticism
• Jewish authors -- Political and social views
• Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life
• Jews in literature
• Judaism and literature -- United States -- History
• Race relations in literature
• United States -- Race relations
• African American authors -- Political and social views

Language

eng

Summary

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. Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation 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 Saul Bellow. The purpose is to understand how this dialogue has engendered misconceptions and misunderstandings, and how blacks and Jews in America have both sought and resisted assimilation and ethnic autonomy. -- publisher's description

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

LC call number

PS153.N5

LC item number

B83 1998eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture

Series volume

120