The preceding chapters' asymmetries all function as variations on a central theme. In this last full chapter, I exchange literary Blacks and Jews for two other kinds: cinematic ones, and the entities enmeshed in the accidental allegory called blackjewishrelations. As a medium of symbolic exchange rather than a natural state of affairs, perhaps the latter is no more than the literaturizing component of human relations writ large on the plane of cultural identity; or perhaps it is what is meant by cultural identity itself, the transpersonalization and enlargement of the self, back-lit by the postmodern. But given the kathartic pressure commonly brought to bear on such exchange, together with the outsized dimensions it must bear in cinema and “real life” – precisely not the novel – the resulting ghostly coefficient seems all the more apposite at the seam where Life itself conjures Art outside the strictly literary.