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

• Tác giả: Swati Rana
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1469659466
• ISBN-13: 978-1469659473
• ISBN-13: 978-1469659480
• ISBN-13: 978-1469659497
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 810.9920693 American literature in English
• Thông tin xuất bản: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (272 pages).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 312950
• Chủ đề: 1. American Dream in literature; 2. American literature--Minority authors; 3. Minorities in literature

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tóm tắt

"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"-- Provided by publisher.