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Description

1. ix, 237 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

1. "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"--

Series statement

1. Latinidad: transnational cultures in the United States

Uniform title

1. Latinidad.

Subject

1. 2000-2099
2. American literature > Caribbean American authors > History and criticism
3. American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism
4. Caribbean fiction (Spanish) > 21st century > History and criticism
5. Social mobility in literature
6. Culture in literature
7. Group identity in literature
8. Emigration and immigration in literature
9. American fiction
10. American literature > Caribbean American authors
11. Caribbean fiction (Spanish)

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. Literary criticism.

Contents

1. A future for Cuban nostalgia in plays by Nilo Cruz and Eduardo Machado -- Decolonizing queer camp in novels by Edwin Sánchez and Ángel Lozada -- Zero-sum games in fiction by Junot Díaz and Rita Indiana Hernández -- The gentrification of our dreams in Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical theater -- Race, sex, and enterprising spirits in works by Dolores Prida and Mayra Santos Febres.

Call number

1. JFE 23-2138

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Reyes, Israel, author.

Title

1. Embodied economies : diaspora and transcultural capital in Latinx Caribbean fiction and theater / Israel Reyes.

Publisher

1. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]

Copyright date

1. ©2022

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Latinidad: transnational cultures in the United States
2. Latinidad.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local note

1. AUTH: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE.

Chronological term

1. 2000-2099

LCCN

1. 2021038287

ISBN

1. 9781978827851 paperback
2. 1978827857 paperback
3. 9781978827868 hardcover
4. 1978827865 hardcover
5. 9781978827875 electronic publication
6. 9781978827882 electronic book

Research call number

1. JFE 23-2138