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discursos antidistópicos

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La especialista en Literatura Española, Patricia López-Gay, participó en el XVII Congreso de la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (ASALE), celebrado entre el 11 y 13 de noviembre de 2024 en Quito. Su ponencia se enfocó en la obra de la escritora puertorriqueña Giannina Braschi, particularmente en los libros Estados Unidos de Banana, recientemente reeditado en una versión gráfica...

Americanidad latina

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CANAL SUR: El entretenimiento y la información se dan la mano en este programa de CanalSur Radio que dirige Javier Benítez. Con Paco Reyero. "El puertorriqueño Bad Bunny hizo historia recientemente al convertirse en el primer artista latino en actuar en solitario en el espectáculo del descanso de la Super Bowl. En su actuación lanzó un mensaje: Juntos, somos América. Hablamos con Giannina...

Fun Facts about American Poets

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Prepare for your next "Did You Know Quiz" on American Poetry. Enjoy this list of quirky, fun facts about Contemporary American Poets, spanning the objects they carry in their pockets to the sports they master, and their lifelong obsessions.

Contemporary American Poets Fund Facts

Study Women in Literature Online

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Study Women in Literature Online. Celebrate the contributions of great female authors across eras and genres. In this post, University of Texas-Permian Basin highlights 21 eminent women writers who defied societal norms, innovated narrative forms, and reshaped global storytelling. Spanning 19th-century visionaries like Mary Shelley, George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë...

Latin American Philosophers: From Sor Juana and Leopoldo Zea to Giannina Braschi

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Latin American philosophy confronts colonialism, identity, liberation, language, gender, and political power. From Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, José Martí, José Carlos Mariátegui, and Leopoldo Zea to Enrique Dussel, María Lugones, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Giannina Braschi, Latin American philosophers have challenged inherited definitions of freedom and intellectual authority. This introduction places...

Latin American Women Philosophers

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This chronological guide introduces the women who shaped Latin American philosophy across Latin America, the Caribbean, and their diasporas, from Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz to María Lugones, Gloria Anzaldúa, Ofelia Schutte, Susan Nuccetelli, Linda Martín Alcoff, Giannina Braschi, and contemporary decolonial feminist thinkers. It explores their contributions to knowledge, freedom, colonialism...

Teaching Latinx Comics Studies and United States of Banana

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This teaching guide pairs Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Crossings, the open-access Rutgers University Press anthology edited by Fernanda Díaz-Basteris and Maite Urcaregui, with United States of Banana: A Graphic Novel by Giannina Braschi and Joakim Lindengren. Featuring Frederick Luis Aldama’s chapter on the graphic novel, the guide offers course pairings, discussion questions...

Caribbean Philosophy Today: A Manual Against Censorship

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In “A Manual Against Censorship,” THE LETTER PODCAST brings together Mónica-Ramón Ríos’s literary framing, Giannina Braschi’s dramatic performance of Putinoika, and a conversation about Caribbean philosophy today, epic disaster,s art, and Braschian conceptual creations. Through figures such as a self-asserting chair and a Bacchus pregnant with the chorus, the episode introduces a cross-genre work...

Caribbean Literature Resources: Writers, Journals, and Organizations

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This guide gathers essential Caribbean literature resources for readers, students, teachers, and scholars, including writers, journals, festivals, archives, poetry collections, and research organizations from across the region and its diasporas. Featured voices include Aimé Césaire, Maryse Condé, Frantz Fanon, Édouard Glissant, Giannina Braschi, Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat, Kamau...

American Book Review Putinoika

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American Book Review Putinoika American Book Review Putinoka by Giannina Braschi American Book Review 46:2 Reimagining Storytelling with Giannina Braschi Frederick Luis Aldama interviews Giannina Braschi for American Book Review EXCERPT Putinoika in American Book Review: Interventions Giannina Braschi, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, began her multifaceted journey as a fashion model, singer, and...