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XXXXXX This page intentionally left blank Facing Black and Jew LiteratureasPublicSpaceinTwentieth-CenturyAmerica InFacingBlackandJew,AdamZacharyNewtoncouplesworksof prosefictionbyAfricanAmericanandJewishAmericanauthors fromHenry RothandRalph EllisontoPhilip Rothand David Bradley.Readingtheworkofsuchwritersalongsideandthrough oneanother,Newton’sbookoffersanoriginalwayofjuxtaposing twomajortraditionsinmodernAmericanliterature,andrethink- ingthesometimesvexedrelationshipbetweentwoconstituen- ciesordinarilyconfinedtosociopoliticalormediacommentary alone. Newton combines Emmanuel Levinas’s ethical philos- ophy and Walter Benjamin’s theory of allegory in shaping an innovative kind of ethical–political criticism. Through artful, dialogical readings of Saul Bellow and Chester Himes, David MametandAnnaDeavereSmith,andothers,Newtonseeksto representAmericanBlacksandJewsoutsidethedistortingmir- rorof‘‘Black–JewishRelations,’’andrestrictiveliteraryhistories alike.AfinalchapteraddressestheBlack/Jewishdimensionof theO.J.Simpsontrial. adamzacharynewtonisAssociateProfessorofEnglishat the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Narrative Ethics(1995)andnumerousarticlesinscholarlyjournals. XXXXXX CulturalMargins Generaleditor TimothyBrennan Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and English, UniversityofMinnesota TheseriesCulturalMarginsoriginatedinresponsetotherapidly increasing interest in postcolonial and minority discourses amongliterary and humanistscholars in the US, Europe, and elsewhere. The aim of the series is to present books which investigatethecomplexculturalzonewithinandthroughwhich dominant and minority societies interact and negotiate their differences.Studiesintheseriesrangefromexaminationsofthe debilitatingeffectsofculturalmarginalisation,toanalysesofthe formsofpowerfoundatthemarginsofculture,tobookswhich mapthevariedandcomplexcomponentsinvolvedintherela- tions of domination and subversion. This is an international series, addressing questions crucial to the deconstruction and reconstructionofculturalidentityinthelatetwentieth-century world. 1 AnnMarieSmith,NewRightsDiscoursesonRaceandSexual- ity:Britain,1968–19900521459214 2 DavidRichards,MasksofDifference:CulturalRepresentations inLiterature,Anthropology,andArt052147972x 3 Vincent,J.Cheng,Joyce,Race,andEmpire0521478596 4 Alice Gambrell, Women Intellectuals, Modernism, and Differ- ence:TransatlanticCulture,1991–1945052155688 5 Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, and Margaret Iversen (eds.), CannibalismandtheColonialWorld052162908x 6 Kenneth Mostern, Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: RacializationinTwentieth-centuryAmerica0521646790 XXXXXX Facing Black and Jew LiteratureasPublicSpacein Twentieth-CenturyAmerica Adam Zachary Newton The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia Ruiz de Alarcón 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa http://www.cambridge.org ©Adam Zachary Newton 2004 First published in printed format 1999 ISBN 0-511-03699-X eBook(Adobe Reader) ISBN 0-521-65106-9 hardback ISBN 0-521-65870-5 paperback ForBuster ...andotherabsentpresences: XXXXXX XXXXXX
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