A vexed Figure inhabits U.
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Rana offers a new way to view characterization through racialization that creates a fuller socia.
Swati Rana grapples with these figures, building on studies of literary character and racial form.
Such figures are potent and controversial, for they promise to expiate racial violence and perpetuate an exceptionalist ideal of America. Literature and culture: the visibly racialized immigrant who disavows minority identity and embraces the American dream.
A vexed Figure inhabits U.
S