TY - BOOK ID - 118083621 TI - Embodied Economies : Diaspora and Transcultural Capital in Latinx Caribbean Fiction and Theater. PY - 2022 SN - 1978827873 1978827881 1978827857 1978827865 PB - New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Emigration and immigration in literature. KW - Group identity in literature. KW - Culture in literature. KW - Social mobility in literature. KW - Caribbean fiction (Spanish) KW - American fiction KW - American literature KW - English literature KW - Agrarians (Group of writers) KW - Spanish fiction KW - Caribbean literature (Spanish) KW - History and criticism. KW - Caribbean American authors KW - upwardly mobile, upward mobility, Latinx, Caribbean, Latinx Caribbean migrants, cultural heritage, American Dream, neoliberal economy, United States, discourse, white nationalism, ethnic, linguistic, assimilation, assimilate, mainstream culture, dominant culture, exiles, refugees, Spanish, inter-dependence, white middle-class, embodiment, ethnic identity, racial identity, identity markers, Losing Traditions, traditions, transcultural capital, fiction, theater, Latinx Caribbean diaspora, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Nilo Cruz, Edwin Sánchez, Ángel Lozada, Rita Indiana Hernández, Dolores Prida, Mayra Santos Febres, networks, Latinx enclave, inequities, power, privilege, literary voices, Hispanic Caribbean, Cuban Nostalgia, Cuba, Cuban, Decolonizing, decolonization, nostalgia, plays, Queer, Gentrification, musical theater. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118083621 AB - "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"-- ER -