When we think of the American dream, a by now legendary iconography is activated in us, which moves from east to west, which often crystallizes in a house with a driveway or an elegant apartment in the city, and which has mainly white men as protagonists.
Is this still the American dream in 2022?
We should ask – and we will do it first – to fukù, that type of adverse fate and ferocious superstition that an entire population is willing to challenge, truly risking everything, in order to once again make the dream of a better life their own. . The dream of an America to be reached no longer from the east but from the south; an America to reach to bring you the signs of home – the music, the barrios, the butterflies, the fried plantains, the bodegas; an America to reach and on which to found new iconographies, reinvigorate old traditions and write new stories.
On this sixth literary journey of Maps of America we will be accompanied by: Junot Díaz, Julia Alvarez, Angie Cruz, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Naima Coster, Elizabeth Acevedo, Rita Indiana and others.
Where we are going?
This spring we will go where America is said to have been discovered: not to the United States but to the Dominican Republic, where we will meet faces and voices who, in turn, will invite us on a journey full of rhythm and super powers at a time of the countries, the way they call their America: the neighborhoods of New York, the towns of New Jersey, the suburbs of Chicago, the streets of New England. Here we will only be able to get to know the United States all over again, from another point of view, observing with new eyes so many themes that we have already loved and explored and once again giving this land the complexity and variety it deserves.
