Race characters ethnic literature and the figure of the American dream
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 boo...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press
2020.
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| Colección: | North Carolina scholarship online.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009673516806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
