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oapen-20.500.12657-768702023-10-20T02:11:23Z Race Characters Rana, Swati race character ethnic literature American dream 1900 to 1960 immigration racial form comparative Arab American Asian American Black Chicano assimilation model minority authorial character Marshall, Paule Rihani, Ameen Saund, Dalip Singh Villa, José Garcia Villarreal, José Antonio comparative ethnic literature early twentieth-century immigrant literature diaspora ethnicity African American Afro-Caribbean Chicana/o Filipina/o South Asian American exceptionalism individualism upward mobility American character archetype autobiography autobiographical fiction fictive character literary character personhood social character burden of representation literary formalism literary method character criticism bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFN Migration, immigration & emigration bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSL Ethnic studies::JFSL1 Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies 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, Jose Garcia Villa, and Jose 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, Race Characters presents an original method of comparison, revealing how the protagonist of the American dream is socially constrained and structurally driven. 2023-10-19T07:43:43Z 2023-10-19T07:43:43Z 2020 book ONIX_20231019_9798890860507_9 9798890860507 9781469659497 9781469659466 9781469659473 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76870 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9798890860507.pdf 9781469659497.epub https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469659473/race-characters/ The University of North Carolina Press The University of North Carolina Press 10.5149/9781469659497_Rana 10.5149/9781469659497_Rana 165ebb72-a81f-4229-898c-5f49a35f306e 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 9798890860507 9781469659497 9781469659466 9781469659473 The University of North Carolina Press 272 Chapel Hill [...] National Endowment for the Humanities NEH open access
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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, Jose Garcia Villa, and Jose 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, Race Characters presents an original method of comparison, revealing how the protagonist of the American dream is socially constrained and structurally driven.
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