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Race Characters Ethnic Literature and the Figure of the American Dream

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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 expiate racial violence and perpetuate an exceptionalist ideal of America. Swati Rana g...

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Main Author: Rana, Swati (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 2020
Subjects:
Migration, immigration & emigration
Literature: history & criticism
Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies
race
character
ethnic literature
American dream
1900 to 1960
immigration
racial form
comparative
Arab American
Asian American
Black
Chicano
assimilation
model minority
authorial character
Marshall, Paule
Rihani, Ameen
Saund, Dalip Singh
Villa, José Garcia
Villarreal, José Antonio
comparative ethnic literature
early twentieth-century immigrant literature
diaspora
ethnicity
African American
Afro-Caribbean
Chicana/o
Filipina/o
South Asian
American exceptionalism
individualism
upward mobility
American character
archetype
autobiography
autobiographical fiction
fictive character
literary character
personhood
social character
burden of representation
literary formalism
literary method
character criticism
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