Strangers in the Land
Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America
Published on 1. July 2009
672 pages
978-0-674-04414-2 (ISBN)
Description
The importance of blacks for Jews and Jews for blacks in conceiving of themselves as Americans is a matter of voluminous but perplexing record. This work of literary criticism and cultural history draws on politics, sociology, law, religion, and popular culture to illuminate a vital, highly conflicted interethnic partnership over a century.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Harvard University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-04414-2 (9780674044142)
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Book
09/2008
The Belknap Press
€31.00
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Person
Eric Sundquist is UCLA Foundation Professor of Literature at UCLA.
Content
Introduction 1 1. America's Jews 17 2. The Black Nation Israel 95 3. Black Skin, Yellow Star; or, Blues for Atticus Finch 170 4. Exodus 239 I. A Negro-less World: William Melvin Kelley 239 II. The Wounding Past: Paule Marshall 269 5. Black Power, Jewish Power 311 6. Bernard Malamud's Dark Ghetto 381 7. Holocaust 435 I. Never Forgetting 435 II. Other People's Nightmares 481 8. Spooks 503 Notes 529 Acknowledgments 643 Index 647
