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...
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...
La poesía puertorriqueña actual: lecturas, poetas y librerías esenciales para descubrir las voces de la isla, la diáspora y la poesía nuyorican. Esta guía recorre la obra de figuras fundamentales como Julia de Burgos, Giannina Braschi, Urayoán Noel, Willie Perdomo y Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, junto con estudios críticos, antologías y libros sobre literatura puertorriqueña contemporánea. También...
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...
This informal guide explores how, for nearly 2,500 years, artists and writers have continuously reinterpreted Sophocles’ Antigone to reframe its timeless conflict between individual conscience and state authority. Visual creators—from ancient Greek ceramicists and Neoclassical painters to Mark Rothko and contemporary figures like painter Alexandra Grant and poet Giannina Braschi—rely on fresh...
Postcolonial political philosophy examines how empire shapes freedom, sovereignty, citizenship, language, and political identity. Puerto Rican poet and philosopher Giannina Braschi transforms these questions into literature through satire, Spanglish, dramatic dialogue, and radical experiments in form. From Grace Whistler’s new study of Braschi’s parables and Goya-inspired monsters in Literature...
Read about famous Puerto Rican writers of the Diaspora and emerging voices alike in this book review by Carmen Dolores Hernandez in Nuevo Dia. “Diasporic Journeys”: The Book that Explores Puerto Rican Literature Beyond the Island. The publication gathers interviews with Boricua writers based in the United States, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, Giannina Braschi, and Quiara Alegría Hudes. This blog...
The Literary Encyclopedia summaries Empire of Dreams, an epic poem by Giannina Braschi. El imperio de los sueños (1988) [Empire of Dreams, 1994) is a collection of six books of poetry and fiction written in Spanish during the 1980s in New York City. The work is organized in three parts: Asalto al tiempo [Assault on Time] (1981), La comedia profana [Profane Comedy] (1985), and Diario íntimo de la...
A list of ten 21st Century Bacchae theater productions, publications, performances, including adaptions written by Anne Carson, Anne Soper, and Giannina Braschi. Ten 21st century productions of the Bacchae include works by: National Theatre and Indhu Rubasingham, Teatro Greco di Siracusa and Carlus Padrissa, Almeida Theatre and James Macdonald, Teatro Greco di Siracusa and Antonio Calenda...
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...