This guide introduces major Puerto Rican philosophers and cultural theorists through the ideas that define their work: education and ethics, national identity, aesthetics, colonialism, debt, sovereignty, memory, diaspora, and popular culture. From Eugenio María de Hostos and Francisco José Ramos to Anayra Santory Jorge, Rocío Zambrana, Giannina Braschi, Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones, Juan Flores, and...
This quirky and engaging literary feature explores the surprising intersection of sports and poetry, profiling seven American writers—Jack Kerouac, James Dickey, Ken Kesey, Giannina Braschi, Terrance Hayes, Natalie Diaz, and Hanif Abdurraqib—who competed in varsity or professional sports before making their mark on the page. Highlighted by fun facts, a rare historical photograph of Giannina...
Italian master printer Giorgio Upiglio (1932–2013) made his Milan studio, Grafica Uno, an international center for avant-garde printmaking and libri d’artista. He collaborated with artists and writers including Marcel Duchamp, Lucio Fontana, Giorgio de Chirico, Wifredo Lam, and Günter Grass. Among the studio’s rare artist’s books is the 1987 edition of El libro de payasos y bufones, pairing...
Carátula. Putinoika de Giannina Braschi: colectficción y poética de la descomposición. En este análisis, Priscilla Gac-Artigas explora Putinoika (2024), la más reciente y provocadora obra de la escritora puertorriqueña Giannina Braschi. Gac-Artigas propone que Putinoika encarna una poética colectiva y performativa que desborda los límites del testimonio individual para configurar un “nosotros”...
Patricia López-Gay sitúa la obra reciente de Giannina Braschi en el cruce de la autoficción especulativa, la literatura antidistópica, la política y los estudios de género. Presentado inicialmente en el XVII Congreso de la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (ASALE), el ensayo lee Estados Unidos de Banana y PUTINOIKA dentro de una geografía panhispánica que reúne a escritores como Lina...
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...
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.
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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 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...
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...