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Black-Jewish Relations in African American and Jewish American Fiction
Adam Meyer
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Description for Black-Jewish Relations in African American and Jewish American Fiction
Hardback. Including 410 entries-drawn from over 100 years of novels, short stories, plays, and children's and young adult literature-this bibliography demonstrates both the extent and the richness of the fiction which has been written about Black-Jewish relations in America, thus enhancing our view of American ethnic literature as a whole. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, indexes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; DSK; GBCR; JFSL3; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 385.
Students of comparative or American literature will find this new bibliography extremely useful in understanding the perspectives of American ethnic writers, for it is not only in how they describe and respond to white hegemony that we comprehend their worldview, but also through their depiction of interrelationships with other ethnic groups. Although African American and Jewish American writers are more prolific than other ethnic writers in the U.S., this is the first study to list and describe the contexts in which these writers portray relationships between the two groups. The 410 entries are drawn from more than a century ... Read more
Students of comparative or American literature will find this new bibliography extremely useful in understanding the perspectives of American ethnic writers, for it is not only in how they describe and respond to white hegemony that we comprehend their worldview, but also through their depiction of interrelationships with other ethnic groups. Although African American and Jewish American writers are more prolific than other ethnic writers in the U.S., this is the first study to list and describe the contexts in which these writers portray relationships between the two groups. The 410 entries are drawn from more than a century ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810842182
SKU
V9780810842182
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About Adam Meyer
Adam Meyer is Associate Professor, Department of English, Fisk University, Nashville, TN.
Reviews for Black-Jewish Relations in African American and Jewish American Fiction
In what he figures is the first such cross-ethnic bibliography, Meyer (English, Fisk U., Nashville, Tennessee) summarizes over 400 novels, short stories, plays, and works for children and young-adults bu African American and Jewish American writers in which black and Jewish characters meet, or at least comment on, one another. The phenomenon and its fictional representation are both common, ... Read more