{"product_id":"embodied-economies-israel-reyes-9781978827851","title":"Embodied Economies: Diaspora and Transcultural Capital in Latinx Caribbean Fiction and Theater","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In chapters that compare works by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Nilo Cruz, Edwin S疣chez, ﾁngel Lozada, Rita Indiana Hern疣dez, 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. \u003ci\u003eEmbodied Economies\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Israel Reyes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1978827857\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781978827851\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/13\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.13h x 6.06w x 0.55d","brand":"Israel Reyes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44058791870719,"sku":"9781978827851","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_32722e23-98dd-4b8e-b9d7-01443df06b70.jpg?v=1685054543","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/embodied-economies-israel-reyes-9781978827851","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}