The year 2022 marks the centenary of the publication of T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land. The title of the EAAS2022 conference alludes to Eliot’s work and the main themes in it, expanding the idea of the wasteland to the study of the United States. Hence, the overarching theme of the conference is open to all kinds of reflections around the concept of “wasteland” and waste. European Association...
Urbanismo ecológico en América Latina
Urbanismo ecológico en América Latina. Ecological Urbanism in Latin America (edited by Mohsen Mostafavi, Gareth Doherty, Marina Correia, Ana María Durán Calisto and Luis Valenzuela) presents the complex and multifaceted reality of Latin America based on seven thematic axes: anticipating, collaborating, feeling, including, mobilizing, curating, and adapting. Each section of the book opens with a...
What is Translanguaging in Literature?
Socio-linguist Francisco Moreno-Fernández explains translanguaging in literature. "In this essay, I will begin from a standpoint in which spaces of contact may lead to translingual practices, and where languages constitute a continuous reality in which bilingualism translates into translingualism and languages into translanguage. My contribution adopts an analytical strategy based on the text...
¿Qué es la igualdad de género?
El género es un portento humano. Nace para crear otros géneros. Incluso géneros de ciencia, de música, de matemática, de poesía, de filosofía, de arquitectura, de pintura. Es el deseo lo que hay que despertar en la humanidad. El amor es un gran espíritu, como decía Diotima de Mantinea, la maestra de Sócrates. Nace de la necesidad y de la abundancia. Y está lleno en un momento y vacío en otro...
What is a Genre? A Future Pregnant with Thoughts.
Genre is based on space, not on time. Genres create prototypes that can last for centuries. Like the creation of the prototype of tragedy by Aeschylus. Or pataphysics by Alfred Jarry. Their future is pregnant with thoughts. A new genre creates a space that future generations can enter and write—in that model, in that prototype—a new mode of thinking. --Giannina Braschi
Latinx Philosopher on Creation of a New Genre
I am interested in the creation of a genre. Not in the creation of a literary movement. Nor in being a part of a generation. Genre is based on space, not on time. Genres create prototypes that can last for centuries. Like the creation of the prototype of tragedy by Aeschylus. Or pataphysics by Alfred Jarry. Their future is pregnant with thoughts. A new genre creates a space that future...
Antigone: Philosophy, Poetry, Theater
Poetry Magazine presents the poem Antigone by Giannina Braschi. Poetry has also featured poems by Toi Derricotte, Carolyn Forché, Terrance Hayes, Juan Felipe Herrera,Jamaal May, Les Murray, Craig Santos Perez, Safiya Sinclair, Karen Solie, C.D. Wright.
Antigone in Contemporary Dramatic Poetry
Antigone, a dramatic poem by Giannina Braschi, in Poetry Magazine. "Antigone: Anti what is gone. If it leaves, it’s for a reason. Anti has to be gone. It has to go. It always goes against. Against the state— against kinship—and against myself. I don’t want to be the anti-clash. Anti has to go from gone. Gone has to leave immediately, without pause, without cause. I can understand the arguments...
The Waste Land’s 100th Anniversary
The Waste Land’s 100th Anniversary Celebration, Madrid, April 6-8, 2022 The European Association for American Studies is proud to present poet Giannina Braschi and scholars David E. Chinitz, Ramón del Castillo, and Eulalia Piñero Gil as the plenary speakers of The Waste Land’s 100th Anniversary Celebration in Madrid this April. The title of 2022 EAAS Wastelands conference alludes to T...
The Giannina Chair
Read about The Giannina Chair designed by Ian Stell. The chair transforms from a spinning seat to a standing lamp. The kinetic design was born of Giannina Braschi's philosophy that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.