American Fiction, Jewish Writers, and Black Characters: The Return of "The Human Negro" in Philip Roth

Barry Gross

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American Fiction, Jewish Writers, and Black Characters: The Return of "The Human Negro" in Philip Roth

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1984Publisher:Oxford University Press (OUP)Journal:MELUS, volume 11, page 5 (issn: 0163-755X,

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doi: 10.2307/467068

American Fiction, Jewish Writers, and Black Characters: The Return of "The Human Negro" in Philip Roth

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In a number of essays collected in Shadow and Act, Ralph Ellison categorizes the typical uses to which modern American white writers have put Black characters: to image "the unorganized, irrational forces in American life"'; to image "disorder and chaos"2; to image "infantile rebellions [against], fears of, and retreat from reality"3; to image "almost everything [the white mind] would repress from conscience and consciousness. "4

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