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...
A Companion to Literary Evaluation bridges the gap between the non-academic literary world, where evaluation is deeply ingrained, and the world of academia, where evaluation is rarely considered. Encouraging readers to formulate and articulate arguments that balance instinctive judgment and reasoned assessment, this unique volume addresses key issues regarding literary values from the perspective...
THE MAP OF LITERATURE At its center lie the myths and hymns of the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Egyptians, alongside the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. From there, it radiates outward to the Greek “archipelago” of drama, lyric, and philosophy, then spirals into the continents of Renaissance prose, Enlightenment treatises, Romantic poetry, and the proliferating genres of the...
A limited number of free tickets are available for Public Humanities Day's Headline Session with legendary Puerto Rican author and political philosopher Giannina Braschi (the winner of the ASA's 2024 Angela Y. Davis Award), whose works provide a hilarious and unflinching analysis of late-stage American Empire.
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Read about the United States of Banana Theater production based on Giannina Braschi's post dramatic text and directed by Juan Pablo Felix. "I wish I had planned it all. I wish I had had any kind of control. There was so much doubt, however. So much chaos and creative hesitation. With such confidence our intuition guided us, that all I have now is public gratitude and a secret smile. This is a...
Postdramatic theatre by Giannina Braschi includes United States of Banana directed by Juan Pablo Felix and PUTINOIKA, a modern Bacchae staged in the Trump and Putin era.
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"We are honored to award the Angela Y. Davis Prize to Giannina Braschi. Recognized as one of today’s foremost experimental Latinx authors, Giannina Braschi is an independent scholar and writer whose novels and epic projects illuminate new imaginaries, modes of expression, and philosophical structures that urge readers to think beyond the what is to the what could be."
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 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 Notable Nuyorican and Puerto Rican Playwrights Giannina Braschi Migdalia Cruz Emilio Díaz Valcárcel Quiara Alegría Hudes René Marqués Pedro Pietri Miguel Piñero Carmen Rivera Luis Rafael Sánchez Alejandro Tapia y Rivera Lin Manuel Miranda Books about Puerto Rican Playwrights/Theatre Recent Puerto Rican Theater: Five Plays from New Yor Pragmatic Liberation and the Politics...
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"