Il Centro Studi Americani e il Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici dell’Università di Macerata presentano «Dichiarazioni d’indipendenza: revisioni, riscritture, reinvenzioni», il 18 novembre 2026, dalle 9:00 alle 13:00, presso il Polo Giuseppe Tucci. Giannina Braschi dialogherà con Tess O’Dwyer, Manuel Broncano e Giorgio Mariani nella sessione inaugurale, coordinata da Valerio Massimo De Angelis e...
The Centro Studi Americani and the Department of Humanities at the University of Macerata present “Declarations of Independence: Revisions, Rewritings, Reinventions” on November 18, 2026, at Polo Giuseppe Tucci in Macerata, Italy. Puerto Rican writer and poet Giannina Braschi joins Tess O’Dwyer, Manuel Broncano, and Giorgio Mariani for an opening conversation moderated by Valerio Massimo De...
At the European Association for American Studies’ 2026 conference in Bologna, 1776–2026: Visions of Freedom, scholars from Europe and the United States asked what freedom means at America’s 250th anniversary, and who gets to define it. Cristina Garrigós, president of the Spanish Association for American Studies, answered through literature. In “The Liberation of Wires,” she reads Giannina...
En Sí/pero no: La poesía de Bécquer, Giannina Braschi explora cómo la afirmación y la negación dan movimiento al poema. La célebre rima de las golondrinas permite escuchar esa tensión: algo volverá, pero aquello que hizo única una experiencia no puede repetirse. Publicado por Costa-Amic en 1982 y reeditado en 2022, el estudio enlaza la investigación de la escritora puertorriqueña sobre la...
Frederick Luis Aldama’s Latinx Literature: A Very Short Introduction, published by Oxford University Press, maps a literary continuum extending from Indigenous storytelling and colonial chronicles to contemporary poetry, fiction, theater, comics, and multilingual writing. The volume ranges across Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Central American, and South American literary traditions and...
Esta guía reúne a 14 poetas contemporáneos que escriben en español desde España, América Latina, Puerto Rico, Estados Unidos y la diáspora: Ida Vitale, Rafael Cadenas, Cristina Peri Rossi, Raúl Zurita, Coral Bracho, Carmen Boullosa, Piedad Bonnett, Reina María Rodríguez, Giannina Braschi, Luis García Montero, Chantal Maillard, Olvido García Valdés, Elisa Díaz Castelo y Mario Obrero. Concebida...
Literature as Moral Philosophy, edited by Grace Whistler and published by Bloomsbury Academic, gathers twelve essays on literature as argument, moral growth, ethics, aesthetics, narrative, and philosophical form. The collection moves from Kant, Judith Butler, and Mikhail Bakhtin to Albert Camus, Faust, Mary Shelley, Dostoevsky, Tarkovsky, and Giannina Braschi, whose novels are the subject of...
PBS Books y la Biblioteca del Congreso recorren la literatura puertorriqueña en el episodio de Puerto Rico de American Stories: A Reading Road Trip. El programa enlaza figuras históricas como Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, Julia de Burgos, Isabel Freire de Matos, René Marqués y Miguel Algarín con cuatro escritores contemporáneos de la isla y la diáspora: Mayra Santos-Febres, Mara Pastor, Giannina...
PBS Books and the Library of Congress explore Puerto Rico’s literary heritage in American Stories: A Reading Road Trip, connecting Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, Julia de Burgos, Isabel Freire de Matos, René Marqués, and Nuyorican Poets Cafe cofounder Miguel Algarín with contemporary writers Mayra Santos-Febres, Mara Pastor, Giannina Braschi, and Willie Perdomo. Moving across theater, poetry, fiction...
This guide celebrates the collective genius of 14 contemporary poets whose styles, forms, and cultural perspectives differ dramatically, yet who share the expansive creative territory of the Spanish language. Ida Vitale, Rafael Cadenas, Cristina Peri Rossi, Raúl Zurita, Coral Bracho, Giannina Braschi, Luis García Montero, and Olvido García Valdés reinvent language, carry poetry across borders...