Title: Blacks and Jews in literary conversation
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Jewish authors, African American authors, History and criticism, Political and social views, American fiction, African Americans in literature, Race relations, Judaism and literature, Jews, Intellectual life, Relations with Jews, Race relations in literature, Jews in literature, African Americans, History, American literature, jewish authors, American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, American fiction, african american authors, history and criticism, American fiction, jewish authors, African americans, relations with jews, United states, race relations, Roman américain, Auteurs noirs américains, Histoire et critique, Auteurs juifs, Écrivains noirs américains, Pensée politique et sociale, Écrivains juifs, Noirs américains, Relations avec les Juifs, Noirs américains dans la littérature, Relations raciales dans la littérature, Juifs dans la littérature, Relations raciales, Judaïsme et littérature, Histoire, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, General, Juden, Kulturelle Identität, Literatur, Schwarze, Schriftsteller, Amerikaans, Letterkunde, Joden, Negers, Relations interethniques, Dans la littérature
Places: United States
LC classification: PS153.N5 B83 1998