In this conversation with Jorge Neri Bonilla, Puerto Rican poet-philosopher Giannina Braschi reflects on contradiction as the source of dialogue, creativity, love, and political transformation. Moving from environmental crisis and the pandemic to Antigone, extinction, prophecy, and the limits of art, Braschi argues that hope must sometimes be created rather than found—and that deep rest allows...
Flashback! This blog features an early review by the Mexican scholar and translator José Vásquez Amaral of Giannina Braschi's first poems in Spanish. The review was published in Diorama de la Cultura in Excelsior in Mexico in 1981.
Puerto Rican writers, artists, activists, and scholars are the focus of CENTRO's publications. Giannina Braschi, Efraín Barradas, Carmen Haydée Rivera.
Taking advantage of its vast archival resources and connections in the Puerto Rican community, CENTRO disseminates crucial information about Puerto Rican contributions to the political, economic, and social cultures of the United States.
Boston College Libraries recommends Boom and Post-Boom Literature Classics by novelists and storytellers such as: Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, José Donoso, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Roberto Bolaño, Cristina Peri Rossi, Elena Poniatowska, Severo Sarduy, Manuel Puig, Luisa Valenzuela, and Giannina Braschi. Graphics include a montage of Post-Boom Latin American...
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...
CENTRO, the journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, reviews Poets Philosophers Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi. "What we witness in Braschi is an artist that moves beyond the traditional im/migrant story in search of the American Dream, though the American Dream looms large in her writing. Her work reveals characterizations that constantly question the imposition of ideologies...
Thomas Rothe reviews Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama and Tess O’Dwyer, in the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies (2021). The review recognizes this landmark collection as an essential contribution to Giannina Braschi scholarship, examining her poetry, bilingual writing, literary experimentation, and significance within...
In “On Nations Without Borders,” cultural theorist Hamid Dabashi examines how ideas, philosophies, and works of art travel beyond the political borders of postcolonial nation-states. Published in Global Middle East: Into the Twenty-First Century, his essay follows an unexpected transnational journey from the Persian prophet Zarathustra through Mozart and Nietzsche to Giannina Braschi’s United...
THE GREENWOOD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LATINO LITERATURE edited by Nicolás Kanellos in 2010 features an entry on Latina novelist and poet Giannina Braschi.
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...