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...
Celebra el Mes de la Herencia Hispana explorando la riqueza de la literatura puertorriqueña en la isla y la diáspora. Esta guía presenta cuatro librerías esenciales —Julia de Burgos Bookstore, Casa Norberto, Librería Laberinto y Libros787— que conectan a lectores de todo el mundo con autores puertorriqueños clásicos y contemporáneos. También ofrece una introducción a una tradición escrita en...
Filósofos y poetas latinoamericanos de hoy reúne una conversación entre Frederick Luis Aldama y Tess O’Dwyer sobre la obra vanguardista de Giannina Braschi y los vínculos entre poesía, filosofía e imaginación política. Desde Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz y Octavio Paz hasta Borges y Cortázar, el diálogo examina la poiesis, la libertad creadora y la capacidad de la literatura para cuestionar el poder...
Carlos Labbé reads Giannina Braschi’s Empire of Dreams as a groundbreaking Spanish Caribbean epic. His essay anchors this guide to major poets and essential poetry books from Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, tracing traditions of experimentation, migration, exile, multilingualism, Afro-Caribbean identity, and resistance. This resource include lists of Caribbean poets and their...
Explore essential McOndo novels and writers, including Post-Boom novels, stories, poetry, and experimental works by Latin American writers. Have you read these essential Post-Boom novelists: Giannina Braschi, Rodrigo Fresán, Alberto Fuguet, Sergio Gómez, Edmundo Paz Soldán, Mayra Santos Febre, and Jorge Volpi? McOndo is a Latin American Post Boom Literary movement that began in the 1990s by edgy...
Esta guía presenta la amplitud de la poesía puertorriqueña contemporánea, desde Julia de Burgos, Luis Palés Matos y el movimiento nuyorican hasta Giannina Braschi, Urayoán Noel, Willie Perdomo, Raquel Salas Rivera, Mara Pastor, Nicole Cecilia Delgado y Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro. Explora los vínculos entre la isla y la diáspora; el español, el inglés y el Spanglish; la poesía experimental y...
The Puerto Rican Day Parade Facts. Every second Sunday in June, Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue welcomes millions of revelers cheering in the streets for the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, the largest single-day celebration of Hispanic heritage and cultural pride in the United States. Led through the decades by iconic Grand Marshals like Tito Puente, Marc Anthony, Rita Moreno, and Lin-Manuel Miranda...