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

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 assim...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Reyes, Israel (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2022].
Series:	Latinidad.
Subjects:	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.

Table of Contents:

A future for Cuban nostalgia in plays by Nilo Cruz and Eduardo Machado
Decolonizing queer camp in novels by Edwin SaÌ?nchez and AÌ?ngel Lozada
Zero-sum games in fiction by Junot DiÌ?az and Rita Indiana HernaÌ?ndez
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.