Explore essential McOndo novels and writers, including Post-Boom novels, stories, poetry, and experimental works by Latin American writers. Have you read these essential Post-Boom novelists: Giannina Braschi, Rodrigo Fresán, Alberto Fuguet, Sergio Gómez, Edmundo Paz Soldán, Mayra Santos Febre, and Jorge Volpi? McOndo is a Latin American Post Boom Literary movement that began in the 1990s by edgy...
La poesía puertorriqueña actual: lecturas, poetas y librerías esenciales para descubrir las voces de la isla, la diáspora y la poesía nuyorican. Esta guía recorre la obra de figuras fundamentales como Julia de Burgos, Giannina Braschi, Urayoán Noel, Willie Perdomo y Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, junto con estudios críticos, antologías y libros sobre literatura puertorriqueña contemporánea. También...
The Puerto Rican Day Parade Facts. Every second Sunday in June, Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue welcomes millions of joyous revelers cheering in the streets for the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, the largest single-day celebration of Hispanic heritage and cultural pride in the United States. Led through the decades by iconic Grand Marshals like Tito Puente, Marc Anthony, Rita Moreno, and Lin-Manuel...
albertz benda gallery in New York City presented Antigone 3000 (Anakainōsis), Alexandra Grant's first solo exhibition with the gallery. On view from May 21 through July 03, 2026, the show featured new paintings and works on paper from Grant’s long-term investigation into Sophocles’ myth of Antigone. Giannina Braschi's poem Antigone provided context for the series. Read more about Antigone 3000...
Discover Diane E. Marting's scholarly review of Poets, Philosophers, Lovers and explore essential resources on postcolonial political philosophy, decolonial theory, Latinx philosophy, Giannina Braschi, and Caribbean political thought. Published in the Journal of Gender and Sexuality Studies, the review highlights the anthology as a foundational guide to Braschi's philosophical and literary...
Read about famous Puerto Rican writers of the Diaspora and emerging voices alike in this book review by Carmen Dolores Hernandez in Nuevo Dia. “Diasporic Journeys”: The Book that Explores Puerto Rican Literature Beyond the Island. The publication gathers interviews with Boricua writers based in the United States, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, Giannina Braschi, and Quiara Alegría Hudes. This blog...
The Literary Encyclopedia summaries Empire of Dreams, an epic poem by Giannina Braschi. El imperio de los sueños (1988) [Empire of Dreams, 1994) is a collection of six books of poetry and fiction written in Spanish during the 1980s in New York City. The work is organized in three parts: Asalto al tiempo [Assault on Time] (1981), La comedia profana [Profane Comedy] (1985), and Diario íntimo de la...
A list of ten 21st Century Bacchae theater productions, publications, performances, including adaptions written by Anne Carson, Anne Soper, and Giannina Braschi. Ten 21st century productions of the Bacchae include works by: National Theatre and Indhu Rubasingham, Teatro Greco di Siracusa and Carlus Padrissa, Almeida Theatre and James Macdonald, Teatro Greco di Siracusa and Antonio Calenda...
Università degli Studi di Padova: Domani a Padova ospitiamo una grande autrice portoricana, Giannina Braschi. È una presenza pazzesca, oltre che un'autrice sfidante, che dilaga. Putinoika features a contemporary Antigone Per Campanotto è uscito poco tempo fa il suo Putinoika, assurdo, sublime, tragicomico, un oggetto letterario multigenere incollocabile e, finalmente, un po' di frescura. Qui...
Beyond the Norm: Hysterical Realism, Maximalism, and Hyperglossia in Contemporary Literature post that explores the ambitious, sprawling fiction of canonical authors such as Zadie Smith, David Foster Wallace, Roberto Bolaño, Giannina Braschi, Don DeLillo, Salman Rushdie, and Mark Z. Danielewski. Coined by critic James Wood to describe novels overflowing with manic plots, encyclopedic detail, and...