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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reyes, Israel, author.

Series:

Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American literature--Caribbean American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Caribbean fiction (Spanish)--21st century--History and criticism.

Caribbean fiction (Spanish).

Culture in literature.

Emigration and immigration in literature.

Group identity in literature.

Social mobility in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Reyes, Israel Embodied Economies

ISBN:

9781978827875

1978827873

9781978827882

1978827881

OCLC:

1311321182