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Race characters : ethnic literature and the figure of the American dream
- Title
- Race characters : ethnic literature and the figure of the American dream / Swati Rana.
- Author
- Rana, Swati
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 20-5926 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 256 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- 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"--
- Alternative Title
- Ethnic literature and the figure of the American dream
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Reading race and character -- Superman of America vs. Ameen Rihani : the hyperproduction of character -- José Garcia Villa's book of grotesques : character and compulsion -- Many parts of Pocho : the discontinuous characters of José Antonio Villarreal -- Building American character : Dalip Singh Saund's model of minority -- Paule Marshall's Brown girls : structures of character -- The old constellation.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-5926
- ISBN
- 9781469659466
- 1469659468
- 9781469659473
- 1469659476
- 9781469659480 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020022354
- OCLC
- 1147899351
- Author
- Rana, Swati, author.
- Title
- Race characters : ethnic literature and the figure of the American dream / Swati Rana.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-5926