Descript |
218 pages. |
Content |
text |
Media |
unmediated |
Carrier |
volume |
Contents |
Preface; Introduction, Part I. The Space Between Black and Jew: Part II. History and Allegory: A Match Made in Shadow: 1. 'An antiphonal game' and beyond: facing Call It Sleep and Invisible Man; 2. 'Jew me sue me dont you black or white me': the (ethical)politics of recognition in Saul Bellow and Chester Himes; 3. Words Generally Spoil Things and Giving a Man a Final Say: facing history The Chaneysville Incident and Operation Shylock; 4. Literaturized Blacks and Jews; or, Golems and Tar Babys: fates of recognition in John Edgar Wideman and Bernard Malamud; 5. Black-Jewish inflations: face (off) in Mamet's Homicide and the O. J. Simpson trial; Postface Deja vu all over again: Ann Deavere Smith's Fires in the Mirror. |
ISBN |
9780521658706 |
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