The main objective of the project GVA-AICO/2021/249 "Reconfigurations of gender, race and social class in North American ethnic literature of the Obama/Trump era" is to study the new reconfigurations and assemblages of gender, race and social class that have emerged in the literary productions of North American ethnic minority writers during the Obama/Trump eras, as a result of the political, cultural and economic changes of the second decade of the third millennium.

During this period, populist and nationalist policies have played an increasingly relevant role in democracies such as the United States. With the election of an ultra-conservative president like Donald Trump, hostility towards migratory flows and racial tensions in the country have intensified, while movements of social resistance have returned with greater force. This project critically examines the harmonious coexistence achieved with difficulty after the era of civil rights in the sixties of the twentieth century and considers its reconfigurations and legacies in the 21st century from an intersectional and transatlantic perspective.

The general objectives of the project are the following:

1. From a historical point of view, the researchers in LENA analyze the critical and artistic representations and reflections that engage racial conflict (macro and micro racisms), the spaces of migration and diaspora, precariousness, labor exploitation, the new context caused by the pandemic and disease (physical and mental), trauma, gender conflict (macro and micro machismo from the #metoo movement), the links that can be established between these social conflicts and the climate and environmental crisis, the (old and new) spaces for protest and ideological resistance that have been built as a result, and the transethnic alliances that enable us to consider these conflicts in a global context.

2. From a literary, artistic and creative point of view, we also examine the growing importance among North American ethnic literatures of genres such as science fiction, spaces of utopia, dystopia and heterotopia, Afrofuturism, ecocriticism, or indigenous futurism in the reconfiguration of the new identity imaginaries and social spaces that can be created in the post-Trump era.

3. Continuing along the lines started in our previous emerging project, "North American (Trans)ethnic Literatures in a Global Context" (GV/2019/114), we continue to consider the transnational context, that is, the impact of globalization on the internationalization of conflicts, processes and new identity reconfigurations and their connection with our local and regional environment