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- A Tour of Philip Roth's Newark
- William Mikesell. Newark Preservation and Landmarks Committee, 2005.
- Prepared in conjuction with a bus tour of Newark sites associated with Roth. Available?
- A Tour of Philip Roth's Newark
- Virtual Tour prepared by the Newark Public Library.
- Newark Wars--Race Wars/Gang Wars
- James D. Bloom IN Roth's Wars: A Career in Conflict Lexington Books, 2022, pp. 113-174. Rutgers-restricted Access
- Roth's Jewish Weequahic: Perception or Reality and Why It Matters
- Stuart S. Miller. Philip Roth Studies 18(1), 2022, pp. 80-102.
- "It is argued here that Roth misreads some of what he witnessed and was ill-informed about developments in Weequahic beyond 1950. Had it been otherwise, his take on the local and national Jewish condition might have been very different." Rutgers-restricted Access
- Geographical Contexts: Newark
- Jessica Lang IN Philip Roth in Context, edited by Maggie McKinley, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 123-131.
- Newark, Newark, Newark
- Ira Nadel IN Philip Roth: A Counterlife Oxford University Press, 2021. Rutgers-restricted Access
- Newark: The Shtetl
Mark Shechner IN Roth After Eighty: Philip Roth and the American Literary Imagination Lexington Books, 2016, pp. 167-179. Rutgers-restricted Access
- Here in New Jersey: Place in the Fiction of Philip Roth, Richard Ford, and Junot Diaz
- Ann McKinstry Micou. (DLitt) Drew University, 2014.
- "This dissertation argues that three Pulitzer Prize-winning writers, Philip Roth, Richard Ford, and Junot Díaz--a native, a transplant, and a migrant to New Jersey--convey the impact of place on their characters in an immediate and compelling way. The New Jersey neighborhoods they evoke--a Jewish enclave, a largely white suburb, and an immigrant ghetto--crucially affect their characters' destinies...The chapter on Roth examines the ambience of his Newark neighborhood and its consequences upon his narrators' identities, their feelings of belonging or of alienation, and their ambivalence about whether to stay or leave. " Available?
- Newark's Just a Black Colony: Race in Philip Roth's American Pastoral
- Jung-Suk Hwang. Twentieth Century Literature 64(2), June 2018, pp. 161-190.
- "By drawing attention to the black voices represented through and circumscribed in the protagonist’s white victim narrative, I examine how Roth unmasks American society’s deep-rooted but still often overlooked racial and class divisions and criticizes the perpetuation of the American pastoral myth and the myth of the American Dream, which endures despite the counter-reality of African Americans’ experience." Rutgers-restricted Access
- Newark in Myth and History
- Robert Fulford. Queen's Quarterly 119(4), Winter 2012, pp. 539-546.
- "Philip Roth...has reimagined Newark again and again, adding fresh layers to local legend." Rutgers-restricted Access
- In History's Grip: Philip Roth's Newark Trilogy
- Michael Kimmage. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2012. Available?
- "Un viaje a Newark en busca de la Polio"
- Francisco Herrera Rodriguez. Cultura de los Cuidados Año XV, n. 31 (3. cuatrimestre 2011), pp.30-40.
- "In this paper we present a study on Philip Roth's latest novel, Nemesis, in which the American writer reflects on the epidemic of polio in Newark (1944).
- The Brick: Newark's Artistic Inquiry Into Urban Crisis
- Sean Daniel Singer. Thesis (Ph.D.). Rutgers University, 2011.
- Focuses on five Newark-born artists to show how close attentive readings of their work can reveal fresh thinking about urban problems. Looks at poet Amiri Baraka and novelist Philip Roth; jazz trombonist Grachan Moncur III; poet Lynda Hull; and photographer Helen Stummer. Available?
- Nathan Zuckerman, Plato, and the Lost Republic of Newark
- Daniel Paul Anderson. Philip Roth Studies 5(2), October 2009, pp. 165-177.
- "This essay examines the role that Newark plays in Philip Roth’s Zuckerman Bound books, specifically its role as a center of Jewishness. Tracing the model for Zuckerman’s Newark to Plato’s Republic, the essay shows how Zuckerman’s Aristotelian approach to literature causes conflict with his Platonic Jewish culture."
- The Whitening of the Jews and the Changing Face of Newark
- Roy Goldblatt. Philip Roth Studies 2(2), October 2006, pp. 86-101.
- "In this article I will do two things: First, analyze the change in the ethnoracial position of Philip Roth’s Newark Jews, their shift from Other to inbetween and later to white, and then describe the changes that occurred in the city itself, or how a Jewish ghetto that provided safety and security to its community later became the destroyed dead place in which it is portrayed." Rutgers-restricted Access
- Roth, Race, and Newark
- Larry Schwartz. Cultural Logic: A Journal of Marxist Theory & Practice 12(2005).