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Drawing from ethnographic material based on long-term research, this volume considers competing forms of power at micro- and macro-levels in Guyana, where the local is marked by extensive migration, corruption, and differing levels of violence. It shows how the local is occupied and re-occupied by various powerful and powerless people and entities (“big ones” and “small ones”), and how it becomes the site of intense power negotiations in relation to external ideas of empowerment.

Power (Social sciences) --- Violence --- Migration, Internal --- Guyana --- Social conditions. --- Migration, Guyana, Latin America, Caribbean Diaspora, Social Justice, Civic Engagement.

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Using a theoretical approach and a critical summary, combining the perspectives in the postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis and narratology with the tools of hermeneutics and deconstruction, this book argues that Jean Rhys's work can be subsumed under a poetics of cultural identity and hybridity. It also demonstrates the validity of the concept of hybridization as the expression of identity formation; the cultural boundaries variability; the opposition self-otherness, authenticity-fiction, trans-textuality; and the relevance of an integrated approach to multiple cultural identities as an encountering and negotiation space between writer, reader and work. The complexity of ontological and epistemological representation involves an interdisciplinary approach that blends a literary interpretive approach to social, anthropological, cultural and historical perspectives. The book concludes that in the author's fictional universe, cultural identity is represented as a general human experience that transcends the specific conditionalities of geographical contexts, history and culture. The construction of identity by Jean Rhys is represented by the dichotomy of marginal identity and the identification with a human ideal designed either by the hegemonic discourse or metropolitan culture or by the dominant ideology. The identification with a pattern of cultural authenticity, of racial, ethnic, or national purism is presented as a purely destructive cultural projection, leading to the creation of a static universe in opposition to the diversity of human feelings and aspirations. Jean Rhys's fictional discourse lies between "the anxiety of authorship" and "the anxiety of influence" and shows the postcolonial era of uprooting and migration in which the national ownership diluted the image of a "home" ambiguous located at the boundary between a myth of origins and a myth of becoming. The relationship between the individual and socio-cultural space is thus shaped in a dual hybrid position.

English Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Rhys, Jean --- Williams, Ella Gwendolen Rees --- Rees Williams, Ella Gwendolen --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Rhys, Jean. --- Anthropology. --- Social Sciences. --- Sociology. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. --- Hybridity, Cultural identity, Caribbean Diaspora, Jean Rhys's writings, Postcolonial literature. --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Human beings --- Primitive societies

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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.