Puerto Rican poet and philosopher Giannina Braschi is a Keynote Speaker of the European Association for American Studies Conference. On April 7, 2022, the President of EAAS's congress Cristina Garrigos interviews Giannina Braschi on her life’s work. Braschi will also be the subject of a roundtable discussion “United States of Banana and the Dregs of Empire” organized by Amanda Mignone Smith and...
"The Waste Land de T.S. Eliot fue publicado hace 100 años, pero todavía ofrece muchas intuiciones y reflexiones sobre los desperdicios emocionales y espirituales. Hoy tenemos que enfocarnos más en los espacios baldíos que han transformado la tierra y han causado los cambios climáticos y medioambientales. Debemos examinar la relación entre las enfermedades modernas del cuerpo y del espíritu y cómo...
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. 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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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, 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...