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Medician Stars

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"A genre has in itself movements, generations—and after all these concepts expire in time—the genre—that is an artifact—that is a fact made shift—it doesn’t belong to a date—it is not dated—it includes all the expirations that expire in its belly—and it is still pregnant with new beginnings. It allows transformations, revolutions but in itself it is a discovery, an invention like the stars...

Giannina Braschi Dossier

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The dossier highlights the work of writer Giannina Braschi, Puerto Rican by birth and a New Yorker by adoption. As Manuel Broncano rightly tells us, Giannina Braschi can be seen as ‘a Nuyorican poet, a Latinx philosopher, a postmodern novelist, a social satirist, a magical realist, a feminist, a post-dramatic playwright…’ and many other things besides. Braschi, like all those who...

Letras ilustradas

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Letras ilustradas. Ilustradores gaditanos rinden homenaje a la literatura universal. Isabel Allende, Carmen Boullosa, Giannina Braschi, Elena Poniatowska, Julia de Burgos, María Luisa Bombal, Alfonsina Storni, Gabriela Mistral, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga, Anónima, y Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

American Feminist Epics

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American Feminist Epics in the Age of Disaster is a literary seminary dedicated to experimental authors Jennifer Scappetone and Giannina Braschi.

To Create a Genre

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Università di Trieste:

La scrittrice portoricana Giannina Braschi terrà una conferenza dal titolo “To Create a Genre” e leggerà estratti dal libro sui cui sta lavorando, nell’ambito del corso di “Narrazioni e Storytelling” della Prof.ssa Sergia Adamo.

Putinas of Putin

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Putinas of Putin, a dramatic scene from Giannina Braschi‘s new work Putinoika. Las Putinas de Putin Enjoy this video of a poetry reading of the Putinas of Putin by Giannina Braschi at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y. The reading was in celebration of the Daughters of Latin America: An Anthology Reading, edited by Sandra Guzman. Master of ceremonies: Rosie Perez. Authors...

Unterberg Poetry Center 2023-2024

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Unterberg Poetry Center 2023-2024 presents “Daughters of Latin America: An Anthology Reading”, a special program featuring Latine and Caribbean authors such as Rosie Perez, Giannina Braschi, Jamaica Kincaid, and others.

50º aniversario de la ANLE

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Como parte de las actividades celebratorias del quincuagésimo aniversario de la ANLE, la Junta Directiva dio a conocer el programa de la ceremonia protocolar que se llevará a cabo el sábado 3 de junio en las instalaciones del Instituto Cervantes de Nueva York (211 East 49th Street, New York, NY). Presentación del Premio Nacional “Enrique Anderson Imbert” de la ANLE en sus ediciones 2022 y 2023:...

nuevo género literario

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Con el tema “Lengua española, mestizaje e interculturalidad” y casi 300 participantes procedentes de todo el mundo, se celebrará en Cádiz, el IX Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española entre los días 27 y 30 de marzo. Será inaugurado por los reyes de España en una ceremonia en el Gran Teatro Falla. Esta novena edición del CILE la organizan el Instituto Cervantes, la Real Academia Española y...

Puerto Rican Comic Books

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Arizona Journal of Hispanic Studies published this book review by Nuria Morgado of United States of Banana by Giannina Braschi and Joakim Lindengren.

MASTERFULLY ILLUSTRATED.
MASTERFULLY WRITTEN.

Read Latinx Philosophers

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American Book Review features an essay by Peter Hitchcock on Latinx Philosopher Giannina Braschi... "Poets, Philosophers, Lovers is a welcome and well-conceived volume on the extraordinary work of Giannina Braschi, a Puerto Rican writer and consummate New Yorker whose creative decolonizing of aesthetics and culture deserves sustained critical engagement. Braschi is best known for three works in...

Biografía de la escritora Giannina Braschi

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Biografía de la escritora Giannina Braschi. “Pocas voces se han alzado en los últimos tiempos con la fuerza creadora y la capacidad de seducción de Giannina Braschi, la poeta puertorriqueña que ha revolucionado el panorama literario con una propuesta sincera, innovadora e inquietante. Braschi utiliza la palabra como una herramienta para la transformación social, un arma del futuro capaz de...

Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, Giannina Braschi

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The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction 1980–2020 features an entry on Giannina Braschi. "Giannina Braschi's United States of Banana (2011) takes off from her groundbreaking quasi-novel Yo-Yo Boing! (1998), and culminates a trilogy that began with El imperio de los sueños (1988), to mark a paradigmatic shift in the millennial poetics of witness of Martí's and Whitman's New York with a...

Puerto Rican Writer Wins Lifetime Achievement

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Puerto Rican author Giannina Braschi wins the 2021 Cambiemos Prize from Cambio16 in Spain for her lifetime achievements in literature. Sir David Frederick Attenborough was honored by Cambio16 in 2020, and Al Gore was honored for his life's work in environmental justice in 2019.

Decolonizing Aesthetics, Latinx Philosophy

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American Book Review of "Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: on the Writings of Giannina Braschi".

"This is a welcome and well-conceived volume on the extraordinary work of Giannina Braschi, a Puerto Rican writer and consummate New Yorker whose creative decolonizing of aesthetics and culture deserves sustained critical engagement," writes Peter Hitchcock in "Slippery Subjectivity".

scrittrice portoricana

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Giannina Braschi. Poetessa e autrice, nata a Portorico e residente a New York, ha scritto in spagnolo, in inglese e in Spanglish opere che trascendono i confini geografici, linguistici e letterari.

Gather in Poems 2024

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Virtual Reading by Contemporary Poets The 2024 edition of the Academy of American Poets’s Gather in Poems virtual poetry event begins with Ricardo Maldonado reading “Behind the Word is Silence” by Giannina Braschi. Behind the word is silence. Behind what sounds is the door. There is a back and a fold hiding in everything. And what was approaching fell and stopped far away in proximity. An...

Postmodernist Latinx Literature

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Postmodernist Latinx Literature in the 21st century: the Writings of Giannina Braschi is a chapter written by Cristina Garrigós in the new anthology entitled American Studies After Postmodernism.

Amor por la vida

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"Amor por la vida: Notas sobre Giannina Braschi y Estados Unidos de Banana" por Nuria Morgado. Latin American Literature Today.

Giannina Braschi’s Genealogy

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Giannina Braschi, a Puerto Rican by birth and a New Yorker by adoption, has received a number of labels in a critical attempt at classifying her oeuvre: a Nuyorican poet, a Latinx philosopher, a postmodern novelist, a social satirist, a magical realist, a feminist, a post-dramatic playwright, etc. Frequent terms associated with her work include Spanglish, transnational, speculative fiction...

Genealogía de Giannina Braschi

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Genealogía de Giannina Braschi: Latin American Literature Today La genealogía de Giannina Braschi Latin American Literature Today: NÚMERO 28 DOSSIER: GIANNINA BRASCHI La genealogía de Giannina Braschi por Manuel Broncano Puertorriqueña de nacimiento y neoyorkina de adopción, Giannina Braschi se ha visto catalogada con las más variopintas etiquetas: poeta nuyorriqueña, filósofa latinx...