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.
Brief description: Catherine Rottenberg is Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics and the Gender Studies Program at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. She is the author of Performing Americanness: Race, Class, and Gender in Modern African-American and Jewish-American Literature.
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"A pioneering work, this book does not claim to be definitive, but seeks to lay a foundation for the future study of the literatures of the two communities. With a valuable index and extensive notes accompanying most of the articles, this work would be a useful addition for libraries which deal with comparative literature and culture." -- AJL Reviews