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Embodied economies : diaspora and transcultural capital in Latinx Caribbean fiction and theater

Reyes, Israel, author

2022

Overview

\"How do upwardly mobile Latinx Caribbean migrants leverage their cultural heritage to buy into the American Dream? In the neoliberal economy of the United States, the discourse of white nationalism compels upwardly mobile immigrants to trade in their ties to ethnic and linguistic communities to assimilate to the dominant culture. For Latinx Caribbean immigrants, exiles, and refugees this means abandoning Spanish, rejecting forms of communal inter-dependence, and adopting white, middle-class forms of embodiment to mitigate any ethnic and racial identity markers that might hinder their upwardly mobile trajectories. This transactional process of acquiring and trading in various kinds of material and embodied practices across traditions is a phenomenon author Israel Reyes terms \"transcultural capital,\" and it is this process he explores in the contemporary fiction and theater of the Latinx Caribbean diaspora. In chapters that compare works by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Nilo Cruz, Edwin Sánchez, Ángel Lozada, Rita Indiana Hernández, Dolores Prida, and Mayra Santos Febres, Reyes examines the contradictions of transcultural capital, its potential to establish networks of support in Latinx enclaves, and the risks it poses for reproducing the inequities of power and privilege that have always been at the heart of the American Dream. Embodied Economies shares new perspectives through its comparison of works written in both English and Spanish, and the literary voices that emerge from the US and the Hispanic Caribbean\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Subject: 2000-2099 / American literature Caribbean American authors History and criticism. / American fiction 21st century History and criticism. / Caribbean fiction (Spanish) 21st century History and criticism. / Social mobility in literature. / Culture in literature. / Group identity in literature. / Emigration and immigration in literature. / Littérature américaine Auteurs américains d'origine antillaise Histoire et critique. / Roman américain 21e siècle Histoire et critique. / Roman antillais (espagnol) 21e siècle Histoire et critique. / Mobilité sociale dans la littérature. / Culture dans la littérature. / Identité collective dans la littérature. / Émigration et immigration dans la littérature. / American fiction. / American literature Caribbean American authors. / Caribbean fiction (Spanish)
• ISBN: 9781978827851, 1978827857, 9781978827868, 1978827865

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS153.C27 E63 2022	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE