Analyses of Mid-Century Novels in
Prof. Klein's 'After Alienation'
Jill Kraft to Marly
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MISS JILL KRAFT
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Kraft of
Hendrie Blvd., Huntington Woods,
announce the engagement of their
daughter Jill Susan to Barry El-
liott Solomon, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles B. Solomon of Washburn
Ave.
The bride-elect graduated from
Grosse Pointe University School
and is attending Wayne State Uni-
versity. Her fiance attends WSU
law school.
The wedding will take place in
June 1965.
Distinguished novelists of our
era are under scrutiny in an im-
portant volume by Prof. Marcus
Klein of Barnard College, and the
result of his study leads to a better
understanding of popular fiction
and of the authors under review.
Dr. Klein's "After Alienation—
American Novels in Mid-Century,"
published by World, concerns it-
self with history, and the author-
critic emphasis that his purpose
was not to discover contemporary
fiction.
Five well known personalities
are under discussion here — Saul
Bellow, Ralph Ellison, James Bald-
win, Wright Morris and Bernard
Malamud.
Explaining his con c ern at
1 e n g t h with two Negro writ-
ers, Ralph Ellison and James
Baldwin, Prof. Klein states that
their work "indicates an impulse
toward accommodation succeed-
ing a history of alienation." In
his introduction he defines his
aim: the frequent use of the
word "accommodation" and the
word "alienation" to describe
the historical mood, stating:
"They are cant terms of contem-
temporary criticism which have
become standards in a battle .. .
(with) a certain risk of bombast
in them. . . . They describe not
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only historical circumstances, but
parties and powers . they have
come to comprehend a vague-
ness of partisan reference in
which all issues may be lost . . ."
He takes "alienation" to begin
"in that deliberate strategy of dis-
content" enunciated before World
War I. The differing situation that
followed the last war, with "the
boobs not so dumb," the prudes
having "yielded their virtue" . . .
"new terrors have settled old is-
sues" and: "The years since mid-
century outmoded a literary atti-
tude which his become a tradition.
. . . The act of accommodation, of
adjustment to the social fact, has
been . . . a recoil of timidity and a
refusal of intelligence. . . . by 'ac-
commodation' I mean to refer to
a mood in the best of our contem-
porary literature, the mood that
occurred when rebellion had ex-
hausted itself . . ." - •
There is a concluding note in
which he adds the definition:
" 'Accommodation' is restoration
and love in their ordinary, do-
mestic, painfully contingent in-
stances, and it makes up in plain
necessity what it lacks in con-
science."
Prof. Klein views the "radiant
artifacts of Bernard Malamud's fic-
tion" as having been "the shroud's
and the graves of Jews: rusty caf-
tans and rusty black derbies, de-
crepit tenaments, gloomy grocery
stores smelling of poverty, of age,
and of inviolate failure." He de-
scribes Malamud's fiction as having
"depended upon the shtetl problem
and the shtetl sense . . ."
"His talent," the critic asserts
about Malamud, " is for the extra-
ordinary, for annunciation and
epiphanes . . ." Malamud's "The
Assistant," "A New Life," "The
Natural" and other works are
under review.
Saul Bellow is described as
"larky and boisterous, full of
strong assertions and apothegms
which have the finality only of the
fullest fiction . . ."
Thre is a new, perhaps better,
understanding of the civil rights
issue as a result of the keen an-
alyses of the Ralph Ellison and
James Baldwin works. There is a
rational approach to identity and
to the race issue.
And in Wright Morris' works we
are reintroduced to his search for
life in the rural Midwest.
Federal Grant Will Help Construct
Sinai Medical Research Building
Plans for a new medical research building to be constructed
at Sinai Hospital are for a 22,000-square-foot, four-story center
(right) adjacent to the existing structure facing McNichols Rd. A
federal grant of $315,285 and matching local funds will be used for
the new research facility. Architects are Albert Kahn Associates.
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A federal grant of $315,285 to sources. These include the Na-
help construct a medical research tional Institutes of Health, the
building was awarded to Sinai Michigan Cancer Foundation, the
Hospital of Detroit, Nate S. Jewish Welfare Federation of De-
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The grant, from the National Hospital Women's Guild and sev-
Institutes of Health, Division of eral pharmaceutical companies.
Research Facilities and Resources,
and funds from local donors will
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four-story center to house Sinai's youth receiving college education.
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`Negro Anti-Semitism
Must Not Be Met With
Jewish Anti-Negroism'
NEW YORK (JTA)—A leader of
the American Jewish Congress
voiced confidence that Negro anti-
Semitism which he described as
growing, would be rejected by the
overwhelming number of Ameri-
can Negroes.
Shad Polier warned, however, of
"tragic consequences" if Jews
should respond with bitterness,
hostility and anti-Negroism, "a
product no less terrible than anti-
SemitiSm." He spoke at a meeting
of the governing council of the
American Jewish Congress, of
which he is chairman. •
Polier said: "The Negro in strik-
ing out against the Jew is assault-
ing a white world which he be-
lieves has short-changed him and
which he believes is determined to
take advantage of him. This grow-
ing phenomenon has taken place
despite the active role of Jews in
supporting the Negro's just de-
mands for full equality.
"I do not dismiss Negro anti-
Semitism. But I am equally con-
cerned lest Jews react to it alienat_
ing themselves from the struggle
for recial justice. Such a response
will be self-defeating and can serve
only to fuel the fires of anti-Semit-
Michigan has the second most ism and civil strife in our country."
The American Jewish Congress
complete series of vital records in
the United States, dating back to leader said he did not regard
Negro anti-Semitism as "either
1867.
pervasive or enduring."
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, June 19, 1964
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