magical black man
n.— «“Angel Levine” introduces us to another flying Jew, without feathers, this time simply black, a magical black man, Alexander Levine, by name, but by narrational locution, “the Negro.”…Where does such a magical black man come from? From Hollywood? Burlesque? Folklore? » —“Literaturized Blacks and Jews; or Golems and Tar babies: reality and its shadows in John Edgar Wideman and Bernard Malamud” by Adam Zachary Newton Facing Black and Jew: Literature as Public Space in Twentieth-Century America Aug. 13, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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