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Writers from different postcolonial regions are usually classified according to their different nationalities or linguistic areas, and have rarely been brought together in one volume. Moving in a new direction, Postcolonial Archipelagos crosses not only geographical but also linguistic boundaries, by focusing on two contexts which seemingly have little or nothing in common with one another: the Hispanic Caribbean, and Lusophone Africa. Kristian Van Haesendonck thus opens new ground, in two ways: first, by making connections between contemporary Caribbean and African writers, moving beyond the topos of slavery and negritude in order to analyse the (im)possibility of conviviality in postcolonial cultures; and secondly, by exploring new ways of approaching these literatures as postcolonial archipelagic configurations with historical links to their respective metropoles, yet also as elements of what Glissant and Hannerz have respectively called "Tout-Monde" and a "world in creolization". Although the focus is on writers from Lusophone Africa (Mia Couto, José Luis Mendonça and Guilherme Mendes da Silva) and the Hispanic Caribbean (Junot Díaz, Eduardo Lalo, Marta Aponte, James Stevens-Arce and Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá), connections are made with and within the broader global context of intensified globalization.

Caribbean fiction (Spanish) --- African fiction (Portuguese) --- Postcolonialism in literature

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Given the welcomed shift throughout the academy away from essentialist and biologically fixed understandings of ""race"" and the body, it is a curiosity worth exploring that so many sophisticated-and even radical-narratives retain physical and behavioral heredity as a guiding trope. The persistence of this concept in Caribbean literature informs not only discourses on race, ethnicity, and sexuality, but also conceptions of personal and regional identity in a postcolonial societies once dominated by slavery and the plantation. In this book, Rudyard Alcocer offers a theory of Caribbean narrative

Caribbean fiction (Spanish) --- Caribbean fiction --- Heredity in literature. --- Caribbean literature --- Spanish fiction --- Caribbean literature (Spanish) --- History and criticism.

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This book explores the dimensions of the coming-of-age novel in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and Brazil, focusing on works by eight major Afro-Latin American writers.

Bildungsromans, Brazilian --- Brazilian fiction --- Bildungsromans, Caribbean (Spanish) --- Caribbean fiction (Spanish) --- Emigration and immigration in literature --- Race in literature. --- Religion in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Black authors --- Religion in drama --- Religion in poetry --- Caribbean literature (Spanish) --- Spanish fiction --- Caribbean Bildungsromans (Spanish) --- Brazilian literature --- Brazilian Bildungromans --- Emigration and immigration in literature.

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The Plantation in the Postslavery Imagination examines the persistent presence of the plantation in trans-American literatures of the last century. Russ conceives the plantation to be not primarily a physical location, but rather an ideological and psychological trope through which intersecting histories of the New World are told and retold. The permutations of this imagined site (as something related to but separate from the real plantation) illuminate a number of fundamental issues of concern in Latin American and transnational American studies. The book's comparative analyses engage in debates over gender, race, and nation by emphasizing a series of differences: between modern and postmodern imaginaries, the United States and Spanish America, and continental and island plantation societies.

Plantations in literature. --- Spanish American fiction --- Caribbean fiction (Spanish) --- American literature --- Plantations --- Littérature hispano-américaine --- Littérature caribéenne --- Littérature américaine --- History and criticism. --- Dans la littérature --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature hispano-américaine --- Littérature caribéenne --- Littérature américaine --- Dans la littérature --- 20e siècle

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"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"--

Emigration and immigration in literature. --- Group identity in literature. --- Culture in literature. --- Social mobility in literature. --- Caribbean fiction (Spanish) --- American fiction --- American literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Spanish fiction --- Caribbean literature (Spanish) --- History and criticism. --- Caribbean American authors --- 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.