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 th...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press
[2020]
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| Colección: | JSTOR Open Access monographs.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b4704472x*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
