TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rana,Swati
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Race Characters : : Ethnic Literature and the Figure of the American Dream / 
SN  - 9781469659497
AV  - PS169.A49 R36 2020
U1  - 810.9/920693 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Minorities in literature
KW  - American literature
KW  - Minority authors
KW  - American Dream in literature
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Reading race and character -- Superman of America vs. Ameen Rihani: the hyperproduction of character -- Jose Garcia Villa's book of grotesques: character and compulsion -- Many parts of Pocho: the discontinuous characters of Jose Antonio Villarreal -- Building American character: Dalip Singh Saund's model of minority -- Paule Marshall's Brown girls: structures of character -- The old constellation; Open Access
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/78299/
ER  -