Hospitality Rituals and Caribbean Migrants: Tom Wolfeâs Back to Blood, Ana Lydia Vegaâs âEncancaranublado,â and Francisco Goldmanâs The Ordinary Seaman1

Ana MarÃ­a Manzanas Calvo

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Chapter 10 Hospitality Rituals and Caribbean Migrants: Tom Wolfeâs Back to Blood, Ana Lydia Vegaâs âEncancaranublado,â and Francisco Goldmanâs The Ordinary Seaman¹

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In âThe Caribean Imaginary in âEncancaranubladoâ by Ana Lydia Vega,â Diana VÃ©lez argues that the Caribbean âis a space that can be theorized productively within both paradigms: both diaspora and borderlandâ (828). This chapter proposes that hospitality can also offer an apt theoretical frame to analyze the interactions between and among migrants on one hand, and between migrants and Americans on the other. The chapter examines Ana Lydia Vegaâs story as part of a series of literary works that gravitate around acts of hospitality. Vegaâs âEncancaranubladoâ and Edwidge Dunticatâs âChildren of the Seaâ and âCarolineâs Weddingâ establish a direct connection between contemporary migrants and the slave trade. Tom Wolfeâs Back to Blood and Francisco Goldmanâs The Ordinary Seaman tackle the stasis and the hostility of the arrival. If Wolfâs character is literally suspended between land and sea, between being a âdryâ or a âwetâ foot, between standing a chance of being welcome to America or being sent to GuantÃ¡namo, Goldmanâs characters undergo a process of depersonalization that transforms them into slaves and zombies. The four examples show that the arrival to an American harbor never translates as hospitality, and that mobility for Caribbean migrants often translates as another variation of mobility âin chains.â

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The Poetics and Politics of Hospitality in U.S. Literature and Culture

Series:Â Critical Approaches to Ethnic American Literature, Volume: 7

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Print Publication Date:: 06 Jun 2020

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Chapter 10 Hospitality Rituals and Caribbean Migrants: Tom Wolfeâs Back to Blood, Ana Lydia Vegaâs âEncancaranublado,â and Francisco Goldmanâs The Ordinary Seaman¹