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'... this is an absorbing and highly intelligent work ...' Journal of Jewish Studies

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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.

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That's the way I've torn on through, Torn my way, and bitten, too, With my head as through a wall, Cross-country, over roads and all. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ethnic semiosis, bright sparkles, invisible man, minor literature Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Operation Shylock, Bob Jones, John Washington, African American, David Schearl, Philip Roth, Angel Levine, The Tenants, Ralph Ellison, Jewish American, New York, Cynthia Ozick, Moses Washington, Nat Lime, Brother Tarp, Cornel West, Reckless Eyeballing, The Counterlife, Charity Quietness, Langston Hughes, Leon Wieseltier, Rabbi Zera, Black American, Black Skin, Crown Heights New!
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