The dossier highlights the work of writer Giannina Braschi, Puerto Rican by birth and a New Yorker by adoption. As Manuel Broncano rightly tells us, Giannina Braschi can be seen as ‘a Nuyorican poet, a Latinx philosopher, a postmodern novelist, a social satirist, a magical realist, a feminist, a post-dramatic playwright…’ and many other things besides. Braschi, like all those who...
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Jon Beasley-Murray interviews Giannina Braschi on Yo-Yo Boing!
Giannina Braschi’s Yo-Yo Boing!
Conversation between Giannina Braschi and Jon Beasley-Murray in which they discuss language, cosmopolitanism, the collective, and the end of the twentieth century.
Letras ilustradas. Ilustradores gaditanos rinden homenaje a la literatura universal. Isabel Allende, Carmen Boullosa, Giannina Braschi, Elena Poniatowska, Julia de Burgos, María Luisa Bombal, Alfonsina Storni, Gabriela Mistral, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga, Anónima, y Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
This guide examines American feminist epics through the University of Udine’s 2023 international seminar “American Feminist Epics in the Age of Disaster,” devoted exclusively to Jennifer Scappettone and Giannina Braschi. It explores how their experimental, multilingual, cross-genre works transform environmental catastrophe, migration, colonialism, political imprisonment, and linguistic struggle...
Università degli Studi di Udine: Si invitano gli/le studenti/esse all'evento organizzato nel ciclo degli Incontri con l'esperto The Revenge of Poetry, the Revenge of Philosophy in Contemporary Culture. L'evento sarà curato dalla poeta e filosofa Giannina Braschi in dialogo con Tess O'Dwyer, chair alla Academy of American Poets. (a\Autrice portoricana)
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La scrittrice portoricana Giannina Braschi terrà una conferenza dal titolo “To Create a Genre” e leggerà estratti dal libro sui cui sta lavorando, nell’ambito del corso di “Narrazioni e Storytelling” della Prof.ssa Sergia Adamo.
Watch Giannina Braschi perform “Putinas of Putin,” a dramatic scene from her epic tragicomedy Putinoika, before more than 800 people at New York’s 92NY. Presented during the Unterberg Poetry Center’s celebration of Sandra Guzmán’s landmark anthology Daughters of Latin America, the rowdy political comedy transforms Euripides’ Bacchae through the Muses of Bacchus, the Agents of Pendejo, and the...
En la historia de Giannina Braschi, exalumna de Sagrado, se escribe un nuevo capítulo luego que la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE) le otorgara un premio “Enrique Anderson Imbert” este 2022, por su trayectoria literaria. De inicio, “la madre Arzuaga me exhortó a estudiar psicología y filosofía, un ejercicio que me ayudó a encontrarme”, dijo la poeta egresada del Colegio de las...
Professor and coeditor Amy Sheeran discusses teaching United States of Banana: A Graphic Novel as an interdisciplinary work connecting Puerto Rican history, U.S. imperialism, Latinx comics, literature, visual art, and popular culture. With classroom approaches and newer scholarship from Thomas Rothe and NYU’s Latinx Project, this guide shows how Giannina Braschi and Joakim Lindengren’s political...
Christopher Lightfoot Walker Reading Series 2023. Daughters of Latin America: An Anthology Reading Hosted by Rosie Perez amd featuring Giannina Braschi, Sonia Guiñansaca, Jamaica Kincaid, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, and Esmeralda Santiago. An eclectic and inclusive time capsule spanning centuries, genres, and geographical and linguistic diversity, Daughters of Latin America is...