Giannina Braschi and Joakim Lindengren teamed up on this scathing critique of American colonialism. Through comic book format they take to task state sanctioned violence, mass incarceration, mass deportation, and financial terrorism in post-9/11 American culture.
"Esta escritora puertorriqueña, revolucionaria, retadora, visionaria y valiente, ha superado los encasillamientos usuales con que se suele silenciar la voz de los nuestros"
An Austrian literary organization came up with a series of temporary tattoos of vanguard women authors and artists, including Leonora Carrington, Remedio Varo, Giannina Braschi, Anna Kavan, Inger Christensen, Christine Brooke-Rose, and Ilse Aichinger. Lisa Spalt, creator of these wonderful and whacky tattoos, posted them on Twitter. Tattoos of Women Poets and Artist Tattoos of Women Poets and...
United States of Banana: A Graphic Novel is recommended by Midwest Books.
"As iconoclastic and entertaining as it is thoughtful and thought-provoking, United States of Banana is a tale for our times and unreservedly recommended for community, college and university library political graphic novel collections."
Hispanic New York: "Avid fans of Latin American and Latino literature have long been following the Puerto Rican writer Giannina Braschi. Best known for penning the first Spanglish novel Yo-Yo Boing! and geopolitical tragicomedy United States of Banana, Braschi is an ardent champion of Puerto Rican independence—and of free expression. Often called revolutionary and prophetic, her high-voltage...
“How can you continue to believe in poetry, after all the blows that life has dealt you? How does one still believe in feelings and innocence?” 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 impulsar el cambio hacia un mundo mas humano, justo...
"Sidestepping the easily consumable, Braschi’s creative work puts pressure on and radically bends a Latinx literary canon, and with this she calls attention to the self-within-the-collective of nation and diasporic community. She converses with Isabel Rios (Victuum, 1976), Cecile Pineda (Face, 1985), Guillermo Gomez-Peña (Codex Espangliensis, 1998), Alejandro Morales (Waiting to Happen, 2001)...
PEN calls the Puerto Rican poet and author Giannina Braschi one of the most revolutionary writers in Latin American literature today. In Puerto Rico, we are proud to call this Boricua more simply “one of us!” Born in San Juan, she was a founding member of El Coro de Niños de San Juan, a fashion model, and tennis champion in her teen years on the island. Her family friends and mentors included the...
Latinx Spaces interviewed Puerto Rican composer Gabriel Bouche Caro about his art song cycle based upon Giannina Braschi's epic love poem to New York City, El imperio de los sueños. Braschi named Angelamaría Dávila, Luis Pales Matos, and Julia de Burgos as her favorite Puerto Rican poets who the composer should include in his song cycle.