Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 “An antiphonal game” and beyond: facing Ralph Ellison and Henry Roth
- 2 “Jew me sue me don't you black or white me”: The (ethical) politics of recognition in Chester Himes and Saul Bellow
- 3 “Words generally spoil things” and “Giving a man final say”: facing history in David Bradley and Philip Roth
- 4 Literaturized Blacks and Jews; or, Golems and Tar babies: reality and its shadows in John Edgar Wideman and Bernard Malamud
- 5 Black–Jewish inflations: face(off) in David Mamet's Homicide and the O. J. Simpson trial
- Postface: Déjà-vu all over again; or, mirrors and the face – Anna Deavere Smith after Levinas
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - “An antiphonal game” and beyond: facing Ralph Ellison and Henry Roth
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 “An antiphonal game” and beyond: facing Ralph Ellison and Henry Roth
- 2 “Jew me sue me don't you black or white me”: The (ethical) politics of recognition in Chester Himes and Saul Bellow
- 3 “Words generally spoil things” and “Giving a man final say”: facing history in David Bradley and Philip Roth
- 4 Literaturized Blacks and Jews; or, Golems and Tar babies: reality and its shadows in John Edgar Wideman and Bernard Malamud
- 5 Black–Jewish inflations: face(off) in David Mamet's Homicide and the O. J. Simpson trial
- Postface: Déjà-vu all over again; or, mirrors and the face – Anna Deavere Smith after Levinas
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Facing Black and JewLiterature as Public Space in Twentieth-Century America, pp. 24 - 55Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999