American Jewish novelists have frequently clashed with multiculturalism

Evidence

American Jewish novelists have trouble with multiculturalism. Philip Roth’s novel The Human Stain takes on political correctness as one of its central themes and Saul Bellow has had a constant struggle with multiculturalism over the past two decades. Remember the outrage to his comment “Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus?” about whether there is an African culture? — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 787

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Bellow’s ‘Tolstoy of the Zulus’ comment, which was a famous public controversy over literary universalism versus cultural particularism.