03513cam a2200733 4500 2718306957 TxAuBib 20260328120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781469659497 1469659492 B086GJY975 Amazon ae497aae-7649-45ca-8685-f5e64452883f OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5378947 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Rana, Swati. Race Characters [Libby eBook] : Ethnic Literature and the Figure of the American Dream. The University of North Carolina Press, 2020. early twentieth-century immigrant literature. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. comparative ethnic literature. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. American Exceptionalism. authorial character. ethnic literature. African American. asian american. american dream. Afro-Caribbean. model minority. Arab American. Assimilation. josé antonio. 1900 to 1960. Immigration. Comparative. south asian. racial form. José Garcia. Dalip Singh. villarreal. Filipina/o. character. ethnicity. chicana/o. marshall. Diaspora. Chicano. Rihani. villa. black. Ameen. Paule. Saund. race. HTML:<p>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 expiate racial violence and perpetuate an exceptionalist ideal of America. Swati Rana grapples with these figures, building on studies of literary character and racial form. Rana offers a new way to view characterization through racialization that creates a fuller social reading of race. Situated in a nascent period of ethnic identification from 1900 to 1960, this book focuses on immigrant writers who do not fit neatly into a resistance-based model of ethnic literature. Writings by Paule Marshall, Ameen Rihani, Dalip Singh Saund, José Garcia Villa, and José Antonio Villarreal symbolize different aspects of the American dream, from individualism to imperialism, assimilation to upward mobility. The dynamics of characterization are also those of contestation, Rana argues. Analyzing the interrelation of persona and personhood, <i>Race Characters</i> presents an original method of comparison, revealing how the protagonist of the American dream is socially constrained and structurally driven.</p>. Literary Criticism. Multi-Cultural. Nonfiction. Sociology. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-03-27 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ae497aae-7649-45ca-8685-f5e64452883f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ae497aae-7649-45ca-8685-f5e64452883f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)