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How does historical reality interrelate with fiction? And how much are readers themselves involved in the workings of fictional literature? With innovative interpretations of various well-known texts, Nourit Melcer-Padon introduces the use of literary masks and illustrates literature's engagement of its readers' ethical judgement. She promotes a new perception of literary theory and of connections between thinkers such as Iser, Castoriadis, Sartre, Jung and Neumann. The book offers a unique view on the role of the community in post-existentialist modern cultural reality by emphasizing the importance of ritual practices in literature as a cultural manifestation.

African Americans in literature. --- American literature --- African American literature (English) --- Black literature (American) --- Negro literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- African American authors. --- Afro-American authors --- Negro authors --- Fiction; History; Literary Masks; Reader-Response Criticism; Communities; Collective Imaginary; Collective Unconscious; Wolfgang Iser; Cornelius Castoriadis; Jean-Paul Sartre; Carl Gustav Jung; Johann Jakob Nathanael Neumann; Literature; General Literature Studies; Literary Studies --- Carl Gustav Jung. --- Collective Imaginary. --- Collective Unconscious. --- Communities. --- Cornelius Castoriadis. --- General Literature Studies. --- History. --- Jean-Paul Sartre. --- Johann Jakob Nathanael Neumann. --- Literary Masks. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Reader-Response Criticism. --- Wolfgang Iser.