Racism in the Confrontation of Crime in Saul Bellow's Novels Mr. Sammler's Planet, The Dean's December and Ravelstein.
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angličtina
Original language name
Racism in the Confrontation of Crime in Saul Bellow's Novels Mr. Sammler's Planet, The Dean's December and Ravelstein.
Original language description
With the exception of Ravelstein, the Bellow novels under study have the confrontation of crime committed by African Americans (thieves and murderers) as the salient theme and the main protagonists are deeply engaged with psychological or social insightswhile confronting the criminals. In the novel Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970), the narrator, a Holocaust survivor and intellectual, regards the decline of urban America and the rise of crime rates as the indelible outcome of the 1960s counterculture and "Black Power" movements. In The Dean's December (1982), Bellow fictionalizes a real murder of a University of Chicago student while, as an aside, showing the desperate black public schools on the West Side of Chicago as well as the horrible conditions in the Cook County Prison system, though no suggestion about improving either institution is offered. In contrast to these novels depicting black criminals, Ravelstein (2000) focuses on a Jewish homosexual professor dying of AIDS who is, in th
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J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
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AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
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V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
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Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Lingua viva : odborný časopis pro teorii a praxi vyučování cizím jazykům a češtině jako cizímu jazyku
ISSN
1801-1489
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Volume of the periodical
17
Issue of the periodical within the volume
17
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
9-21
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