Race Realations Rearch Of Jews And Blacks In Malamud’s Novels

The characters in Malamud’s novels including many kinds of races,like Jews,White American Christianitys,Blacks and so on.Angel levine,Black is my favorite color and The tenant,these novels reflect the complex relationship between Jews and Blacks.By carding the history of the United States,as well as the relationship between Jews and Blacks in the three novels,I think that the relationship between them is from help each other to thoroughly split.After researched the three novels seriously, this article deeply researched the dynamic development of their relationship between Blacks and Jews,the historic background,and the cultural reasons behind their relationship.The introduction introduce the research findings of Malamud,significance of the subject and the research methods of this article.The first chapter studied more and more intimate relationship between the two races.The Angel Levine which wrote in the early American civil rights movement, Jews and Blacks put down the prejudice of cultural identity and then saved each other.In the second chapter,the relationship between these two races become indifferent.In the Black is my favorite color,Jewish businessman Mr Nath cannot understand the relationship between ‘self’ and ‘others’ correctly,so produced cultural dislocation.His maid, childhood playmates, and his girlfriend all far away from him. We can see the worsening relations between Blacks and Jews from this situation.In the third chapter,the relationship between the two races thoroughly burst.The relationship between Jewish writer Liser and Black writer Speermintel as both teacher and student,but they are jealous of each other.We can see the great strength of cultural hegemony from their competiton-envy relationship.At the end of the novel,two writers destroyed each other.Their end is a symbol of the races’ broken reationship at the end of the civil rights movement.By means of the vertical sorting out above three chapters,in the concluding remarks,draws a conclusion of the relationship between the two races.And then point out that as a humanitarian,Malamud has been concerned about the relations between the two ethnic groups,but he didn’t open antidote for rupture of the national relations.Holding the good wishes of ‘everyone is a Jew’,he hoped that different ethnic groups can put down the prejudice and discrimination,treat each other equally.Only in this way can they achieve salvation.