Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side
Subtitle: narratives out of time
By: Catherine Rottenberg
Series: SUNY series in multiethnic literature
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781438445212
Subjects: Jews; Intellectual life; History and criticism; American literature; Relations with Jews; Harlem Renaissance; Minority authors; In literature; African Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Harlem on our minds / by Henry Louis Gates; title: The making of an icon: early representations of Harlem and the Lower East Side / by Catherine Rottenberg; title: Strangers in the Village: Greenwich Village and the search for alternative space in ethnic women's fiction of the 1920s and 1930s / by Meredith Goldsmith; title: City place/country place: negotiating class geographies in Ann Petry's writing / by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson; title: Separated at birth?: Henry Roth's Call it sleep and James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain / by Cheryl Greenberg; title: The gesture was never enough: Harlem as a problematic proving ground for Jewish reformers in the post WWII period / by Adam Meyer; title: Harlem streets can talk: engendering affective disorders of characterization in James Baldwin's works / by Magdalena J. Zaborowska; title: Texts of memory: romancing the past / by Hasia Diner.