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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 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. Rana focuses on immigrant writers who do not fit an oppositional framing of ethnic literature. Situated in a nascent period of ethnic identification from 1900 to 1960, writings by Paule Marshall, Ameen Rihani, Dalip Singh Saund, Jose Garcia Villa, and Jose Antonio Villarreal explore different aspects of the American dream, from individualism to imperialism, assimilation to upward mobility.

American literature --- Minorities in literature. --- American Dream in literature. --- Minorities as a theme in literature --- Ethnic literature (American) --- Minority literature (American) --- Minority authors.

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Mongrel Nation surveys the history of the United Kingdom’s African, Asian, and Caribbean populations from 1948 to the present, working at the juncture of cultural studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial theory. Ashley Dawson argues that during the past fifty years Asian and black intellectuals from Sam Selvon to Zadie Smith have continually challenged the United Kingdom’s exclusionary definitions of citizenship, using innovative forms of cultural expression to reconfigure definitions of belonging in the postcolonial age. By examining popular culture and exploring topics such as the nexus of race and gender, the growth of transnational politics, and the clash between first- and second-generation immigrants, Dawson broadens and enlivens the field of postcolonial studies.

English literature --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Immigrants in literature. --- Minorities in literature. --- Literature and society --- Postcolonialism --- Cultural pluralism --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnic identities --- Ethnic nations (Ethnic groups) --- Groups, Ethnic --- Kindred groups (Ethnic groups) --- Nationalities (Ethnic groups) --- Peoples (Ethnic groups) --- Ethnology --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Minorities as a theme in literature --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Minority authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Immigrants in literature --- Minorities in literature --- English --- English Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Culture --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Commonwealth of Nations literature (English) --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Commonwealth of Nations authors --- Black British people --- Black people --- Caribbean --- Racism