Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side : Narratives Out of Time (Suny series in Multiethnic Literatures)

Rottenberg, Catherine (EDT)

State University of New York Press（2014/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 204 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781438445229
• DDC分類 810.9920693

Full Description

Comprehensive analysis of how Harlem and the Lower East Side have been depicted over the course of the twentieth century in African American and Jewish American literature.

Harlem and the Lower East Side are two neighborhoods that evoke not only a rich if contested history, but also a particular "racial" narrative. Indeed, these spaces-one downtown and one uptown on Manhattan Island-have become almost synonymous with the Jewish American and the African American experience in the twentieth century. Chinatown and Little Italy have been replicated across the country, but there is only one Harlem and only one Lower East Side.

This edited volume traces and compares the literary representation of these two iconic city spaces over the course of the twentieth century. Bringing together prominent as well emerging scholars, Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side engages in spatially informed readings of twentieth-century Jewish American and African American literature. The book offers new approaches to Jewish American and African American literary criticism while providing the first truly comprehensive overview of how Black Harlem and the Jewish East Side have been represented-and how their representations have dovetailed as well as diverged-throughout the twentieth century in African American and Jewish American literature.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side
Catherine Rottenberg

1. Harlem on Our Minds
Henry Louis Gates Jr.

2. The Marketing of an Icon: Early Representations of Harlem and the Lower East Side
Catherine Rottenberg

3. Strangers in the Village: Greenwich Village and the Search for Alternative Space in Ethnic Women's Fiction of the 1920s and 1930s
Meredith Goldsmith

4. City Place/Country Place: Negotiating Class Geographies in Ann Petry's Writing
Cherene Sherrad-Johnson

5. Separated at Birth?: Henry Roth's Call It Sleep and James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain
Cheryl Greenberg

6. "The Gesture Was Never Enough": Harlem as a Problematic Proving Ground for Jewish Reformers in the Post-World War II Period
Adam Meyer

7. Harlem Streets Can Talk: Engendering Affective Disorders of Characterization in James Baldwin's Works
Magdalena J. Zaborowska

8. Text of Memory: Romancing the Past
Hasia Diner

Contributors
Index