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Strangers in the Land In a culture deeply divided along ethnic lines, the idea that the relationship between blacks british culture history jew literature romanticism and Jews was once thought special--indeed, critical to the cause of civil rights--might seem strange. Yet the importance of blacks for Jews british culture history jew literature romanticism and Jews for blacks in conceiving of themselves as Americans, when both remained outsiders to the privileges of full citizenship, is a matter of voluminous but perplexing record. It is this record, written across the annals of American history british culture history jew literature romanticism and literature, culture british culture history jew literature romanticism and society, that Eric Sundquist investigates. A monumental work of literary criticism british culture history jew literature romanticism and cultural history, STRANGERS IN THE LAND draws upon politics, sociology, law, religion, british culture history jew literature romanticism and popular culture to illuminate a vital, highly conflicted interethnic partnership over the course of a century. Sundquist explores how reactions to several interlocking issues--the biblical Exodus, the Holocaust, Zionism, british culture history jew literature romanticism and the state of Israel--became critical to black-Jewish relations. He charts volatile debates over social justice british culture history jew literature romanticism and liberalism, anti-Semitism british culture history jew literature romanticism and racism, through extended analyses of fiction by Bernard Malamud, Paule Marshall, Harper Lee, british culture history jew literature romanticism and William Melvin Kelley, as well as the juxtaposition of authors such as Saul Bellow british culture history jew literature romanticism and John A. Williams, Lori Segal british culture history jew literature romanticism and Anna Deavere Smith, Julius Lester british culture history jew literature romanticism and Philip Roth. Engaging a wide range of thinkers british culture history jew literature romanticism and writers on race, civil rights, the Holocaust, slavery, british culture history jew literature romanticism and related topics, british culture history jew literature romanticism and cutting across disciplines to set works of literature in historical context, STRANGERS IN THE LAND offers an encyclopedic account of questions central to modern American culture. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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