The phrase "a representative figure of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that exemplifies or symbolizes a particular group, idea, or concept.
Example: "She is considered a representative figure of modern feminism, advocating for women's rights and equality."
Alternatives: "a symbol of" or "an emblem of".
With all the appurtenances of a country lady, at any rate, a representative figure of her time (born 1890) and place (southern England) and class (upper middle).
Ms. Hansen-Love respects the character too much — even when she is silly, naïve or careless — to make her a representative figure of female adolescence.
Meiji is remembered more as a representative figure of an era than as an individual because his personal identity largely derives from the symbolic nature of emperorship in Japan.
Mr. Krenn, 40, is a hotelier from the southern province of Carinthia, the heartland of Haiderism, and a representative figure of the young entrepreneurs who have helped thrust Mr. Haider's catch-all Freedom Party to power.
In later works Kincaid expresses more specifically political ideas and emotions about Antigua, class, race, illegitimacy, colonialism, Aids, and other topics that some readers may find informative in the context of Annie John or of Kincaid as a writer who is also a representative figure of her time and place.
We should not be misled, by the enigma of his vanishing, into overrating Kees, either as a man or as an artist; he was a major minor poet, yet that very stature, together with his ceaseless lusting to be other or better than he was, makes him a representative figure of his time.
Advocates on both sides have used other measures in an effort to portray a more representative figure of adoption services as a share of total services.
Alec Soth is a representative figure: a member of Magnum whose large colour prints command high prices on the gallery circuit.
A professor of history and black culture, Douglas Daniels is keen to show him as a representative figure, a product of African-American experience, and to an extent the approach is fruitful.
In that sense, a more representative figure of the party's young following might be someone like Ali al-Sayyed.
