Patricia López-Gay sitúa la obra reciente de Giannina Braschi en el cruce de la autoficción especulativa, la literatura antidistópica, la política y los estudios de género. Presentado inicialmente en el XVII Congreso de la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (ASALE), el ensayo lee Estados Unidos de Banana y PUTINOIKA dentro de una geografía panhispánica que reúne a escritores como Lina...
CANAL SUR: El entretenimiento y la información se dan la mano en este programa de CanalSur Radio que dirige Javier Benítez. Con Paco Reyero. "El puertorriqueño Bad Bunny hizo historia recientemente al convertirse en el primer artista latino en actuar en solitario en el espectáculo del descanso de la Super Bowl. En su actuación lanzó un mensaje: Juntos, somos América. Hablamos con Giannina...
Prepare for your next "Did You Know Quiz" on American Poetry. Enjoy this list of quirky, fun facts about Contemporary American Poets, spanning the objects they carry in their pockets to the sports they master, and their lifelong obsessions.
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Women’s Voices in Literature: 21 Influential Authors crosses two centuries of writing, moving from Mary Shelley, George Eliot, and the Brontë sisters through Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, and Susan Sontag to Margaret Atwood, Amy Tan, Giannina Braschi, Naomi Klein, J. K. Rowling, and Suzanne Collins. Originally assembled by the University of Texas Permian Basin, the selection offers teachers...
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...
This post presents an English translation of Prokrastinatorn’s 2017 review of United States of Banana, the comic book Joakim Lindengren and Giannina Braschi created from a sequence in Braschi’s larger work. The Swedish edition, translated by poet Helena Eriksson, prompted the review’s exploration of Lindengren’s visual collisions of art history, pop culture, political satire, and Puerto Rican...
The Puerto Rican Academy of the Spanish Language (Academia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua Española or ACAPLE) is an institution dedicated to the study, preservation, and celebration of the Spanish language in Puerto Rico. The Academy hosts lectures, virtual seminars, and colloquia exploring linguistics, language history, and Puerto Rican coined expressions. The Academy presents Academy members in...
This teaching guide pairs Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Crossings, the open-access Rutgers University Press anthology edited by Fernanda Díaz-Basteris and Maite Urcaregui, with United States of Banana: A Graphic Novel by Giannina Braschi and Joakim Lindengren. Featuring Frederick Luis Aldama’s chapter on the graphic novel, the guide offers course pairings, discussion questions...
In “A Manual Against Censorship,” THE LETTER PODCAST brings together Mónica-Ramón Ríos’s literary framing, Giannina Braschi’s dramatic performance of Putinoika, and a conversation about Caribbean philosophy today, epic disaster,s art, and Braschian conceptual creations. Through figures such as a self-asserting chair and a Bacchus pregnant with the chorus, the episode introduces a cross-genre work...