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02590aam a2200409 i 4500 001 1DECF65A78F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220119010213 008 200514t20202020ncua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020022354 020 $a 1469659476 020 $a 9781469659473 020 $a 1469659468 020 $a 9781469659466 035 $a (OCoLC)1147899351 040 $a NcU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d UND $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS169.A49 $b R36 2020 082 00 $a 810.9/920693 $2 23 100 1 $a Rana, Swati, $e author. 245 10 $a Race characters : $b ethnic literature and the figure of the American dream / $c Swati Rana. 246 30 $a Ethnic literature and the figure of the American dream 264 1 $a Chapel Hill : $b The University of North Carolina Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xiii, 256 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-237) and index. 505 0 $a Reading race and character -- Superman of America vs. Ameen Rihani : the hyperproduction of character -- JoseÌ Garcia Villa's book of grotesques : character and compulsion -- Many parts of Pocho : the discontinuous characters of JoseÌ Antonio Villarreal -- Building American character : Dalip Singh Saund's model of minority -- Paule Marshall's Brown girls : structures of character -- The old constellation. 650 0 $a American Dream in literature. 650 0 $a American literature $x Minority authors. 650 0 $a Minorities in literature. 650 7 $a American Dream in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01902351 650 7 $a American literature $x Minority authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807213 650 7 $a Minorities in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01023274 776 08 $i Online version: $a Rana, Swati. $t Race characters. $d Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020] $z 9781469659497 $w (OCoLC)1199126086 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117033036.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1DECF65A78F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search