Giannina Braschi is literally on the Map of Literature. You’ll find her on the isles of Postmodernism along with Saul Bellow, Thomas Bernhard, Italo Calvino, J.M.G. Le Clézio, Paulo Coehlo, JM Coetzee, Gunther Grass, Peter Handke, Eyvind Johnson, Naguib Mahfouz, Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, Michel Tournier, and David Foster Wallace. See the Halcyon Map of Literature's lands of Postmodernism.
La comedia profana
"La comedia profana de Giannina Braschi" Por Juan Martinez Capó. Especial para El Mundo. Domingo 28 de diciembre de 1986. Giannina Braschi, “La Comedia profana”; Barcelona, Anthropos editorial del hombre, Ambitos Literarios, Poesía 79; 1885, 194 p. "La Comedia Profana, libro original, exasperante caótico y satisfactorio, todo a la vez, es el segundo poemario de Giannina Braschi, el cual la...
Puerto Rican Playwrights: Essential Plays from the Island and Diaspora
Discover essential theater works by Puerto Rican playwrights Giannina Braschi, Migdalia Cruz, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Lin-Manuel Miranda, René Marqués, Pedro Pietri, Miguel Piñero, Luis Rafael Sánchez, and Candido Tirado, among other. See lists of Puerto Rican theater works, spanning Broadway musicals by Lin-Manuel Miranda, epic tragicomedies by Giannina Braschi, and social justice theater by...
Public Humanities Day
AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION HOSTS A PUBLIC HUMANITIES DAY IN OLD SAN JUAN ON NOVEMBER 19, 2025 AS THE OPENING DAY CELEBRATION OF THE ANNUAL MEETING. HEADLINE EVENT OF THE ASA ANNUAL MEETING IN SAN JUAN: "Radical Imagination and the Transcolonial Condition: Giannina Braschi's Literary Dispositifs"
Poesía puertorriqueña contemporánea: una lectura de Josefina Rivera de Álvarez
Este artículo sitúa la poesía puertorriqueña contemporánea dentro del vasto proyecto histórico de Josefina Rivera de Álvarez, cuyo libro Literatura puertorriqueña: su proceso en el tiempo recorre la tradición desde el imaginario indígena y las letras coloniales hasta el Romanticismo, el modernismo, la vanguardia y las generaciones del siglo XX. Tras estudiar a figuras como Alejandro Tapia y...
Puerto Rican diasporic writers
Centro features book reviews of Puerto Rican diasporic writers, such as Giannina Braschi, Esmeralda Santiago, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Migdalia Cruz, and others. In a special edition of CENTRO, read Carmen Haydée Rivera 's essay on Puerto Rican diasporic writer Giannina Braschi, the subject of the academic anthology entitled Poets Philosophers Lovers. Review lists of academic books and essays on...
Late-Stage American Empire
Late-Stage American Empire Conference American Studies Association Annual Meeting 2025 November 19, 2025 Headline Event: Giannina Braschi “Radical Imagination and the Transcolonial Condition: Giannina Braschi‘s Literary Dispositifs” featuring Giannina Braschi, Elidio La Torre Lagares, Carmen Haydee Rivera, Nuria Morgado, and others. Since the end of the Cold War, we have heard a...
Eternal Sardine
Famous Writing Routines interviews Giannina Braschi. "Written during the pandemic, Putinoika features a surreal mix of real and imagined characters—Trump, Melania, Bacchus, the Muses, and more—all thrown together in a collapsing world that feels a little too familiar. In this interview, Braschi talks about how the book came together, why movement helped unlock new ideas, and how she sees...
Inside Putinoika: Writing Political Satire in the Trump-Putin Era
"Giannina Braschi has never been one to stick to a single form. Known for blending poetry, fiction, theater, and political commentary, she’s written everything from the iconic Spanglish novel Yo-Yo Boing! to the satirical epic United States of Banana. Her latest book, Putinoika, continues in that spirit—mixing poetry, drama, philosophy, and humor into one dense, defiant work. Written during the...
Famous Writers Routines
Written during the pandemic, Putinoika features a surreal mix of real and imagined characters—Trump, Melania, Bacchus, the Muses, and more—all thrown together in a collapsing world that feels a little too familiar. In this interview, Braschi talks about how the book came together, why movement helped unlock new ideas, and how she sees collaboration, symbolism, and political resistance as part of...
