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From: Journal of the Short Story in English[(essay date spring 1999) In the following essay, Siebert and Sio-Castiñeira juxtapose the short stories of Malamud and those of the Polish writer Isaiah Spiegel in order to illuminate the ways in which Jewish literary...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 16. )Upon first reading Malamud's "Black Is My Favorite Color," readers may be tempted to feel sorry for the protagonist, Nat Lime, a white, Jewish bachelor who has spent nearly four decades of his life trying--and...
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From: Bernard Malamud Revisited[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Abramson addresses Malamud's treatment of the tension between Jews and African Americans in The Tenants.] Blacks and Whites When Malamud was asked why he wrote The Tenants,...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 16. )Bernard Malamud was a writer whose work explored questions and themes of Jewishness in a humanistic and often fantastic fashion. Jewish identity and experience had both a specific and a universal meaning for Malamud. He...
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From:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 184. )[(essay date summer 1964) In the following essay, Ratner explores the theme of suffering as a means to regeneration and enlightenment in Malamud's fiction, including The Assistant,The Magic Barrel,The Natural, and A New...
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From: Studies in American Jewish Literature[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Lyons offers a feminist reading of several of Malamud's short stories.] Malamud, like so many American Fiction writers, was a great short story writer and a good novelist....
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From: Religion and Literature[(essay date spring 1997) In the following essay, Brown explores Malamud's "radical dissent from contemporary despair" in "The First Seven Years."] "Negative capability" is the capacity to register a faithful...
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From: Religion & Literature[(essay date spring 1997) In the following essay, Brown investigates the theme of hope in "The First Seven Years," noting that Malamud's treatment of negative capability in the story allows him to confront the horrors of...
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From: The Good Man's Dilemma: Social Criticism in the Fiction of Bernard MalamudWhen we examine "Black Is My Favorite Color," we can see the further disintegration of traditional egalitarianism in the face of history. He is a Jewish liquor dealer feeding off the need to dream, the desire to escape,...
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From:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 184. )[(essay date 1989) In the following essay, Solotaroff investigates the characters, themes, and motifs central to Malamud's "folk ghetto" stories, including "Idiots First," "The Cost of Living," and "The Death of Me."]...