Race Characters : Ethnic Literature and the Figure of the American Dream /

"A vexed figure inhabits U.S. literature and culture: the visibly racialized immigrant who disavows minority identity and embraces the American dream. Such figures are potent and controversial for they promise to atone for racial violence and perpetuate an exceptionalist ideal of America. In this bo...

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מחבר ראשי: Rana, Swati (Author)
פורמט: אלקטרוני ספר אלקטרוני
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
סדרה:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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סיכום:"A vexed figure inhabits U.S. literature and culture: the visibly racialized immigrant who disavows minority identity and embraces the American dream. Such figures are potent and controversial for they promise to atone for racial violence and perpetuate an exceptionalist ideal of America. In this book, Swati Rana builds on studies of character and racial form and offers a new way to view characterization through racialization that creates, through literary analysis, a fuller social reading of race"--
תיאור פיזי:1 online resource (272 pages).
ביבליוגרפיה:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469659497
גישה:Open Access