Review lists of modern and contemporary Antigone scripts by poets Anne Carson, Seamus Heaney & Giannina Braschi and Antigone stage and film adaptations by internationally acclaimed directors such as Cezaris Graužinis and Sophie Deraspe.
Modern Antigone. Contemporary Antigone.
Spanning nearly two centuries, the Puerto Rican novel is a vibrant tradition shaped across languages, genres, generations, and geographies. From the archipelago to the diaspora—and from Spanish to English and Spanglish—Puerto Rican writers have turned plantations, drawing rooms, barrios, city streets, airplanes, and colonial institutions into settings for resistance, reinvention, and cultural...
Nuyorican women have transformed American poetry, politics, law, public health, journalism, theater, film, television, music and visual art. Rooted in the literary movement shaped by poets such as Julia de Burgos and Giannina Braschi, their influence extends to national leaders Sonia Sotomayor and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; cultural icons Jennifer Lopez, Rita Moreno and Rosie Perez; institution...
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”...
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...
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.
The Nuyorican and Puerto Rican women playwrights include: Giannina Braschi, Caridad de la Luz, Migdalia Cruz, and Quiara Alegría Hudes, among others.
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Review resources for American epic poems.
See titles of American epic poems from Walt Whitman and Longfellow to HD, Charles Olson, and Giannina Braschi.