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 th...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Full text available: |
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| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469659497 |
| Access: | Open Access |