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...
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...
Here is a short list of Nuyorican and Puerto Rican women playwrights.
For a deeper dive, see list below of academic books on Nuyorican and Puerto Rican playwrights, novelists, and poets.
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See titles of American Epic poems from Walt Whitman and Longfellow to HD, Charles Olson, and Giannina Braschi.
Carolyn Kuebler reviews Empire of Dreams for The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Giannina Braschi has earned her preferred label of modern writer. Latin American, Puerto Rican, New Yorker, and feminist are apt labels as well, but though they might be selling points, they do little to describe her writing. Braschi writes with a strong poetic tradition behind her, and from her erudite standpoint...
Nuyorican Poetry Resources. Alphabetical and chronological lists of Nuyorican Poets, their famous titles, and links to academic essays and books on the Puerto Rican poetry movement. Nuyorican poets include: Miguel Algarín * Giannina Braschi * Caridad Luz * Sandra Esteves * María Fernández * Tato Laviera * Jesús Meléndez * Nancy Mercado * Aja Monet * Lara Montes * Willie Perdomo * Pedro Pietri *...