This guide introduces major Puerto Rican philosophers and cultural theorists through the ideas that define their work: education and ethics, national identity, aesthetics, colonialism, debt, sovereignty, memory, diaspora, and popular culture. From Eugenio María de Hostos and Francisco José Ramos to Anayra Santory Jorge, Rocío Zambrana, Giannina Braschi, Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones, Juan Flores, and...
United States of Banana, a Graphic Novel Una conversación entre Frederick Luis Aldama y Tess O’Dwyer, coeditores de Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi Esta conversación sobre filósofos y poetas latinoamericanos se publicó originalmente en febrero de 2021. Consulte también la versión en inglés. Frederick Luis Aldama y Tess O’Dwyer coeditaron Poets...
Esta guía presenta la amplitud de la poesía puertorriqueña contemporánea, desde Julia de Burgos, Luis Palés Matos y el movimiento nuyorican hasta Giannina Braschi, Urayoán Noel, Willie Perdomo, Raquel Salas Rivera, Mara Pastor, Nicole Cecilia Delgado y Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro. Explora los vínculos entre la isla y la diáspora; el español, el inglés y el Spanglish; la poesía experimental y...
Spanning nearly two centuries, the Puerto Rican novel is a vibrant tradition shaped across languages, genres, generations, and geographies. From the archipelago to the diaspora—and from Spanish to English and Spanglish—Puerto Rican writers have turned plantations, drawing rooms, barrios, city streets, airplanes, and colonial institutions into settings for resistance, reinvention, and cultural...
Nuyorican women have transformed American poetry, politics, law, public health, journalism, theater, film, television, music and visual art. Rooted in the literary movement shaped by poets such as Julia de Burgos and Giannina Braschi, their influence extends to national leaders Sonia Sotomayor and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; cultural icons Jennifer Lopez, Rita Moreno and Rosie Perez; institution...
Enjoy books by Puerto Rican poets today ranging from Willie Perdomo, Giannina Braschi, Edwin Torres, and Elisabet Velásquez in New York City to Mayra Santos, Roque Sala, Xavier Valcárcel on the island. Many more talented poets...
Drawing from Carmen Haydée Rivera’s interview collection Diasporic Journeys: Interviews with Puerto Rican Writers in the United States, this post highlights the pivotal role of Nuyorican women playwrights in establishing a distinct, multi-genre theatrical tradition defined by migration, identity, and complex returns "home." It profiles key figures—including Giannina Braschi, Migdalia Cruz, Quiara...
Nuyorican poets didn’t simply enter American literature—they broke open its language, claimed its stages, and built their own institutions when the establishment shut them out. Moving through English, Spanish, Spanglish, performance, humor, and political resistance, they made poetry multilingual, embodied, and public. From Algarín’s street-rooted poetics, Pietri’s incendiary performances, and...
Latin American philosophy confronts colonialism, identity, liberation, language, gender, and political power. From Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, José Martí, José Carlos Mariátegui, and Leopoldo Zea to Enrique Dussel, María Lugones, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Giannina Braschi, Latin American philosophers have challenged inherited definitions of freedom and intellectual authority. This introduction places...
This chronological guide introduces the women who shaped Latin American philosophy across Latin America, the Caribbean, and their diasporas, from Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz to María Lugones, Gloria Anzaldúa, Ofelia Schutte, Susan Nuccetelli, Linda Martín Alcoff, Giannina Braschi, and contemporary decolonial feminist thinkers. It explores their contributions to knowledge, freedom, colonialism...