Blacks and Jews in literary conversation
By: Emily Miller Budick.
Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.; American fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.; African American authors -- Political and social views.; Judaism and literature -- United States -- History.; Jewish authors -- Political and social views.; Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life.; African Americans -- Relations with Jews.; African Americans in literature.; Race relations in literature.; Jews in literature.; United States -- Race relations.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.