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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| التنسيق: | الكتروني كتاب الكتروني |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2020.
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| سلاسل: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Full text available: |
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| الملخص: | "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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| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (272 pages). |
| بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ردمك: | 9781469659497 |
| وصول: | Open Access |