Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Contemporary American Literature »

Explores Black-Jewish relations by examining the complex ways they have portrayed each other in recent American literature. Focusing primarily on the 1960s and its aftermath, discussion reveals how Jewish and African Americans view each other through a complex dialectic of identification and difference, illuminates dramatic alliances and conflicts, and addresses the persistent questions of ethnic division and economic inequality that have encompassed the Black-Jewish narrative in America. Authors discussed include Richard Wright, Saul Bellow, Barnard Malamud, and Amiri Baraka. Goffman teaches English at Purdue University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR