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: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina Press
[2020], 2020
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 9781469659473 1469659468 1469659476 9781469659466 |