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Jewish Influences in African American Literature

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“For both . . . are victims, big and bitter victims, whatever the order of magnitude, whatever the chronology of victimization.  The have, both these nations, suffered too much and so long that they bear their scars grandiosely, as essential features of an identity, as relics of a sacred history, as tests to the extent to which others represent them as they wish to be represented.  And so both of them, almost as a matter of emotional and cultural course, could let the scars do the work of the wounds; and the memory of oppression do the work of oppression” (Wieseltier, 29)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name

Alanna Millman

E-mail address

Gte911p@mail.gatech.edu

 

Last revised: December 1, 2003

 

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