Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Saul Bellow Journal
Angaben zur Quelle:
16,1 (1999) 3-30
Keywords:
Bellow, Saul.
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African Americans Relations with Jews
;
Jews
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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Jewish literature History and criticism
Abstract:
On the basis of the omission of explicit references to racism against Blacks and their factual contemporary ghettoization in Chicago, argues that the narrator of Saul Bellow's "Dangling Man" (1944) is probably a Jew who fears that he is losing class status due to poverty. His feeling treated "as though I were... a Negro" suggests the repression by the narrator (and perhaps the author) of consciousness of the anti-Black racism of American society. There are indications that prejudices against Jews (including Nazi racism) may play a role in the anti-hero's unconscious.
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