Rolando Pérez Interviews Giannina Braschi On Banana Republics of the Americas, Loud Americans, the Aesthetics of Mestizaje, the Zoom Look, Illusions, Delusions, Trump, and Plagues
On Banana Republics, Loud Americans, Trump, and Plagues
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Latin American Philosophers and Poets Today
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Giannina Braschi is one of our great Latinx vanguardista poets, performers, fiction makers. However, like other deep creators—think Roberto Bolaño, Fernando A. Flores, Salvador Plascencia—the complexity of their work at once demands attentive study and scares off the weak of heart. Like a Borges or a Faulkner, Braschi pushes hard at the limits of creation. In this sense, she’s a poet and a poet’s...
World Literature Today: Latinx Poet and Philosopher
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The avant-garde writings of Puerto Rican author Giannina Braschi have long been the subject of college courses and doctoral dissertations in fields ranging from Latin American studies and Spanglish linguistics to postmodern and postcolonial literatures. But these days her radical texts are popping up in popular culture and far-ranging spaces traditionally devoid of Latinx poetry and philosophy...
Fashion Sayings
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Fashion Sayings:
"Fashion is a curtain that unveils the frenzy of poetry." (Giannina Braschi)
Archives (2020) | Giannina Braschi on Poetry, Isolation, and the Pandemic
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This archival feature presents Giannina Braschi’s primary-source 2020 Q&A and poetry, where her reflections on social distancing and "asphyxia" laid the conceptual groundwork for her 2024 masterwork, Putinoika. Featuring her original reading list—including works by Franco "Bifo" Berardi and Donatella Di Cesare—the entry contextualizes her lockdown meditations within the broader ecosystem of...