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...
Latin American Women Authors from Sor Juana and Gabriela Mistral to Giannina Braschi and Giaconda Belli.
CONTEMPORARY LATN AMERICAN AUTHORS In our thirty-sixth issue of Latin American Literature Today, we highlight the role of the literary critic with a cover feature dedicated to Christopher Domínguez Michael. Domínguez Michael is recognized as one of his generation’s definitive critics and intellectuals, and is the author of essential histories, biographies, and anthologies dedicated to the...
Review of Contemporary Fiction features Empire of Dreams by Giannina Braschi. A review in 1995 by Carolyn Kuebler observes: Braschi's words dance from visual evocation to nonsensical mutability, swirling through a series of sections entitled "Assault on Time," "The Profane Comedy," and "The Intimate Diary of Solitude." "Assault on Time" consists of a thoughtful, single mind's musings on time...
"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, 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 autora, utilizando las dos...
Seminario Federico de Onís: Conversatorio con Giannina Braschi a cargo de Carmen Dolores Hernández y María Inés Castro Ferrer.
EL NUVEO DIA: Escritora boricua Giannina Braschi protagoniza la convención anual de la American Studies Association. La escritora y filósofa puertorriqueña ofrecerá una lectura dramatizada durante el Día de las Humanidades. El Cuartel de Ballajá, en el Viejo San Juan, será el escenario principal de la convención anual de la American Studies Association (ASA), que se celebrará del 19 al 22. El...
Epopeya puertorriqueña: Estados Unidos de Banana. Giannina Braschi explora el viaje cultural y político de casi cincuenta millones de hispanos que viven en los Estados Unidos en esta nueva obra de ficción revolucionaria, su primer escrito original en inglés, ahora traducido al español. Estados Unidos de Banana (una epopeya puertorriqueña) tiene lugar en la Estatua de la Libertad, en la Nueva York...
TODAS PUERTO RICO: Giannina Braschi se prepara para leer. Se levanta con calma de una de las sillas del salón L-1 de la Escuela de Derecho de la Universidad de Puerto Rico y camina hacia la tarima entre aplausos y una estela de silencio. No se coloca en el podio. Se planta frente a un esbelto micrófono solitario y comienza. No hay protocolo ni discursos formales. La poeta, narradora, filósofa del...
Join us for a Bard College event featuring Giannina Braschi—poet, novelist, essayist, and pioneer of Spanglish in literature. Professor Patricia López-Gay will be in dialogue with Braschi. In an age saturated by dystopian narratives that often reinforce the status quo, Braschi’s hybrid and radical work in Spanish, English, and Spanglish opens up new ways of thinking about identity, power, and the...
Welcome to The Cambridge Union, a unique institution at the heart of Cambridge University. Over the years the Union has hosted some of the greatest figures in the world, such as Robert DeNiro, Ronald Reagan and Winston Churchill - we are part of history. A members’ society at its heart, the Union has now opened its doors to the wider public and all can now book events, eat and drink, or even...