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• W1967262922 abstract "Ruby, it seemed to him, was an unnecessary failure. How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it [. . .] Suddenly Richard Misner knew he would stay. Not only because Anna wanted to, or because Deck Morgan had sought him out for a confession of sorts, but also because there was no better place to be than among these outrageously beautiful, flawed and proud people.-Toni Morrison, Paradise 306Yes, the breach had been pounded in their fortification, even out here in Old Rimrock, and now it was opened it would not close again. They'll never recover. Everything is against them, everyone and everything that does not like their life. All the voices from without, condemning and rejecting their life!-Philip Roth, American Pastoral 423In the post-Civil Rights era, the tenuous coalition built during the Civil Rights movement between liberal Jewish groups and African Americans has splintered. Today, it is much more common to read about conflict between Jews and blacks than harmony and cooperation. During roughly the same time period, Philip Roth (1998-2000) and Toni Morrison (1987-1998) each completed trilogies about America. Both Morrison and Roth (contemporaries born only two years apart) offered revisionist narratives of the 1960s that were published in 1998. Roth's American Pastoral offers a seemingly realist account of the 196Os that emphasizes the violence, hopelessness, and assimilation that Jewish Americans experienced. Morrison's Paradise, in contrast, provides a mystical or magical realist account of an all-black community that is struggling to come to terms with integration. Morrison's story ends with a moment of hope and magic for the post-Civil Rights era, whereas Roth seemingly depicts despair in an increasingly prosperous but soulless after the turbulence of the sixties.In this essay, I read Roth and Morrison's novels against one another within the framework of recent conflicts between African Americans and Jews. Their literary attempts to rewrite American history constitute exemplary articulations of the differing perspectives that Africans Americans and Jews bring to public discourse regarding social, political, and cultural issues in contemporary America.1 Economic and political gains for many Jews have created a potentially unbridgeable rift with African Americans that has spilled over into the production of remarkably different literary visions of America. Roth's America bears little similarity to Morrison's America because they explore different racial-ethnic-cultural subjectivities, which respond to and use history in competing ways. Ultimately, the contrast between the novels invites consideration of whether Roth envisions as a completed but ultimately unachievable experiment in democracy, whereas Morrison lays the foundation for a future, grander realization of American democracy. Roth relies on postmodern writing strategies to represent contemporary as a nightmare, while Morrison employs similar methods to sketch out a vision of as a dream yet to be fulfilled.2I decided to put their novels into dialogue with one another and write this essay after attending the 2002 American Literature Associations conference and witnessing the exciting discussions about both writers. What surprised me, however, was that these discussions remained segregated, apparently due more to racial-ethnic politics than stylistic or thematic differences. By contrasting their work, my goal is to foster discussion between Roth and Morrison scholars specifically and between scholars of African American and Jewish American literatures more generally. This essay, along with other research, demonstrates that the post-Civil Rights era has created not just one theory of multiculturalism or diversity but also a series of multiculturalisms or approaches to diversity. The falling apart of the Civil Rights coalition, especially the growing gap between Jewish Americans and African Americans, reflects how contemporary social relations require a reshaping of the academic landscape. …" @default.
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• W1967262922 title "Dream or Nightmare? Roth, Morrison, and America" @default.
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