Race Characters Ethnic Literature and the Figure of the American Dream

• 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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