Introduction 1
Chapter Ⅰ Literary Overview on Bernard Malamud 10
Chapter Ⅱ Malamud and the Quest for Myth 29
The Jewish Experience and the American Myth 30
Baseball and the American Dream:The Natural 36
The Conversion to Judaism:The Assistant 47
The West Myth and Self-Transcendence:A New Life 54
The Politics of Jewish History:The Fixer 63
Art and Life:Pictures of Fidelman:An Exhibition 72
Chapter Ⅲ Malamud and Jewish Fathers 82
Biblical Fatherhood and Jewish Patriarchy 82
Moral Mentors in Suffering 88
Breaking the Covenant:A Problem of Disobedience 116
Chapter Ⅳ Malamud and Race Relations 140
Jewish-Gentile Relations:Judaism vs.Christianity 140
Jewish-Black Relations:The Double Vision 159
Chapter Ⅴ Malamud and Jewish Women 191
Women in American-Jewish Literature 191
The Jewish Women and the Jewish Immigrant Experience 197
The Mother Goddess: Potential Creators of New Life 208
Women as Rebels:Adultery and Prostitution 221
Conclusion 234
Works Cited 241
Terms in Malamud's Fiction 255
后记 260