The Literary Encyclopedia: Giannina Braschi Biography Giannina Braschi is a leading force of innovation in American and Latin American literature and political philosophy of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Braschi writes mixed-genre epic works in Spanish, Spanglish, and English about the marvels and travesties of the human flow—of mass migration, mass incarceration, democracy...
Università degli Studi di Padova: Domani a Padova ospitiamo una grande autrice portoricana, Giannina Braschi. È una presenza pazzesca, oltre che un'autrice sfidante, che dilaga. Putinoika features a contemporary Antigone Per Campanotto è uscito poco tempo fa il suo Putinoika, assurdo, sublime, tragicomico, un oggetto letterario multigenere incollocabile e, finalmente, un po' di frescura. Qui...
"The maximalist novel exists... to show the reader what it means to be human in the postmodern age... It aims to address the complexity of the contemporary world by raiding the whole morphosphere of the Western novel."
Stefano Ercolino, The Maximalist Novel
Review lists of modern and contemporary Antigone scripts by poets Anne Carson, Seamus Heaney & Giannina Braschi and Antigone stage and film adaptations by internationally acclaimed directors such as Cezaris Graužinis and Sophie Deraspe.
Modern Antigone. Contemporary Antigone.
Take a Quick Look at a wide range of Puerto Rican novels by Piri Thomas, Rosario Ferré, Mayra Santos, Giannina Braschi, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro and Esmeralda Santiago. These lists include comic books by Gabby Rivera, Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, and Rosa Colon Guerra and Puerto Rican literary anthologies edited by Carmen Haydee Rivera, Luis López Nieves, José Liboy and Myrna Nieves, among others.
Review lists of Nuyorican women all-stars in the visual arts, performing arts, literature pop culture, and government. Leading Nuyorican women include poets such as Julia de Burgos and Giannina Braschi, playwrights such as Migdalia Cruz and La Bruja, politicians such as Olga A. Méndez and AOC, US Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor, and entertainment moguls such as Jay Lo. Further reading lists...
No te pierdas este video en el que Giannina Braschi recita "Soy redonda" de su poemario El imperio de los sueños (1988). "La poeta, filósofa y activista puertorriqueña Giannina Braschi es reconocida por «la contribución sobresaliente que su trabajo representa para los estudios estadounidenses y, de hecho, para el mundo», dijo Mishuana Goeman, presidenta del American Studies Association (ASA)."...
This blogpost features a summary of the postcolonial novel United States of Banana excerpted from The Literary Encyclopedia. United States of Banana, Braschi’s first work written in English, rewrites “radical politics as high art” by dramatizing the collapse of the Twin Towers as a metaphor for the fall of the American empire (Gonzalez 23). Described by Library Journal as “bizarre but intriguing”...
Rethinking the Latin American Canon. Based on an excerpt from The Literary Encyclopedia.... Giannina Braschi functions as a quintessential academic disruptor whose "notoriously unclassifiable" work mandates a rigorous rethinking of contemporary literary boundaries. Rejecting the passivity of conventional storytelling for a "new literary architecture" rooted in geometry and prophetic imagination...
Enjoy books by Puerto Rican poets today ranging from Willie Perdomo, Giannina Braschi, Edwin Torres, and Elisabet Velásquez in New York City to Mayra Santos, Roque Sala, Xavier Valcárcel on the island. Many more talented poets...