Name: Avocado Dreams. Remaking Salvadoran Life and Art in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area
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Author: Ana Patricia Rodriguez
ISBN: 9780816546428

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Avocado Dreams. Remaking Salvadoran Life and Art in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area

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Libro Físico

Editorial

University of Arizona Press

Autor

Ana Patricia Rodriguez

Año

2025

N° páginas

224

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.90 x 15.20 cm

ISBN13

9780816546428

Avocado Dreams. Remaking Salvadoran Life and Art in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area

Ana Patricia Rodriguez (Autor) · University of Arizona Press · Tapa Blanda

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For more than four generations, Salvadorans have made themselves at home in the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and have transformed the region, contributing their labor, ingenuity, and culture to the making of a thriving but highly neglected and overlooked community. In Avocado Dreams, Ana Patricia Rodríguez draws from her own positionality as a Salvadoran transplant to examine the construction of the unique Salvadoran cultural imaginary made in the greater D.C. area. Through a careful reading of the creative works of local writers, performers, artists, and artivists, Rodríguez demonstrates how the people have remade themselves in relation to the cultural, ethnoracial, and sociolinguistic diversity of the area. She discusses how Salvadoran people have developed unique, intergenerational Salvadoreñ idades, manifested in particular speech and symbolic acts, ethnoracial embodiments, and local identity formations in relation to the diverse communities, most notably Black Washingtonians, who co-inhabit the region. This timely and relevant work not only enriches our understanding of Salvadoran diasporic experiences but also contributes significantly to broader discussions on migration, identity, and cultural production in the United States.