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Essential Resource for Braschian Studies + Latinx Literature

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The Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies declares "Poets Philosophers Lovers" an essential resource for Braschian studies. "Like the poets, philosophers, and lovers who are knocking on the door to enter the dialogue of the Republic in United States of Banana, this volume crosses a threshold as a means to critically and creatively reflect on the lifework of Giannina Braschi. This, above...

Postcolonial Nation-States: Nations without Borders

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The anthology "GLOBAL MIDDLE EAST: Into the 21st Century features a brilliant chapter "On Nations Without Borders" by Hamid Dabashi who shows what Mozart, Nietzsche and Braschi have in common. "One particularly powerful gestation of Nietzsche's Zarathustra is via Walter Kaufmann's groundbreaking translation into English. It came to North America and eventually found its way to an utterly...

Booktrib’s news from the book world

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NEWS FROM THE BOOK WORLD 2022 Literary Awards and Accolades: Knight Owl by Christopher Denise, Hooky by Míriam Bonastre Tur and Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao named winners of the 2022 Barnes & Noble Children’s & Young Adult Book Awards. Lea Ypi’s Free wins the 2022 RSL Ondaatje Prize. Charlie Petch’s Why I Was Late wins the 2022 ReLit Award for Poetry. Puerto Rican writer Giannina Braschi wins...

Premio Enrique Anderson Imbert 2022

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La Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE) otorgó su Premio Nacional “Enrique Anderson Imbert 2022” a la destacada escritora puertorriqueña Giannina Braschi. El jurado premió, por unanimidad, a Giannina Braschi, cuya trayectoria exhibe una riqueza de facetas que excede cualquier denominación simplificadora”, comentó el director de la ANLE, Carlos E. Paldao. Se trata del...

Academia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua Española

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La Academia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua Española promueve el uso correcto, la conservación y el estudio del español en el contexto de la historia cultural del País, desde sus orígenes hasta sus más recientes manifestaciones, y representa internacionalmente a Puerto Rico ante las Academias hermanas.

Postcolonial Literature on Nation-States

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The anthology "GLOBAL MIDDLE EAST: Into the 21st Century features a brilliant chapter "On Nations Without Borders" by Hamid Dabashi who shows what Mozart, Nietzsche and Braschi have in common. "One particularly powerful gestation of Nietzsche's Zarathustra is via Walter Kaufmann's groundbreaking translation into English. It came to North America and eventually found its way to an utterly...

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...

Review of Graphic Novel United States of Banana

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LATINX SPACES features a review by Rolando Perez of the comic book version of United States of Banana. "United States of Banana: A Graphic Novel is an artistic event, the result of a collaboration between Puerto Rican writer Giannina Braschi and Swedish cartoonist Joakim Lindengren. In effect, it is the graphic novel version of Braschi’s 2011 eponymous genre-bending book. In part prose poem...