A limited number of free tickets are available for Public Humanities Day's Headline Session with legendary Puerto Rican author and political philosopher Giannina Braschi (the winner of the ASA's 2024 Angela Y. Davis Award), whose works provide a hilarious and unflinching analysis of late-stage American Empire.
American Studies Association 2025
Read about the United States of Banana Theater production based on Giannina Braschi's post dramatic text and directed by Juan Pablo Felix. "I wish I had planned it all. I wish I had had any kind of control. There was so much doubt, however. So much chaos and creative hesitation. With such confidence our intuition guided us, that all I have now is public gratitude and a secret smile. This is a...
Postdramatic theatre by Giannina Braschi includes United States of Banana directed by Juan Pablo Felix and PUTINOIKA, a modern Bacchae staged in the Trump and Putin era.
American Studies Awards
"We are honored to award the Angela Y. Davis Prize to Giannina Braschi. Recognized as one of today’s foremost experimental Latinx authors, Giannina Braschi is an independent scholar and writer whose novels and epic projects illuminate new imaginaries, modes of expression, and philosophical structures that urge readers to think beyond the what is to the what could be."
Giannina Braschi is literally on the Map of Literature. You’ll find her on the isles of Postmodernism along with Saul Bellow, Thomas Bernhard, Italo Calvino, J.M.G. Le Clézio, Paulo Coehlo, JM Coetzee, Gunther Grass, Peter Handke, Eyvind Johnson, Naguib Mahfouz, Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, Michel Tournier, and David Foster Wallace. See the Halcyon Map of Literature's lands of Postmodernism.
"La comedia profana de Giannina Braschi" Por Juan Martinez Capó. Especial para El Mundo. Domingo 28 de diciembre de 1986. Giannina Braschi, “La Comedia profana”; Barcelona, Anthropos editorial del hombre, Ambitos Literarios, Poesía 79; 1885, 194 p. "La Comedia Profana, libro original, exasperante caótico y satisfactorio, todo a la vez, es el segundo poemario de Giannina Braschi, el cual la...
Discover theater works by Puerto Rican playwrights Giannina Braschi, Migdalia Cruz, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Lin-Manuel Miranda, René Marqués, Pedro Pietri, Miguel Piñero, Luis Rafael Sánchez, and Candido Tirado, among other. See lists of Puerto Rican theater works, spanning Broadway musicals by Lin-Manuel Miranda, epic tragicomedies by Giannina Braschi, and social justice theater by Migdalia Cruz...
AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION HOSTS A PUBLIC HUMANITIES DAY IN OLD SAN JUAN ON NOVEMBER 19, 2025 AS THE OPENING DAY CELEBRATION OF THE ANNUAL MEETING. HEADLINE EVENT OF THE ASA ANNUAL MEETING IN SAN JUAN: "Radical Imagination and the Transcolonial Condition: Giannina Braschi's Literary Dispositifs"
La poesía puertorriqueña contemporánea.
"LITERATURA PUERTORRIQUEÑA:
SU PROCESO EN EL TIEMPO"
por JOSEFINA RIVERA DE ALVAREZ
1983: Ediciones Partenón, S.A. Paseo de La Habana, 56 -Madrid- 16
OTROS POETAS MAS JOVENES...
Giannina Braschi: Asalto al tiempo, 1981.
Centro features book reviews of Puerto Rican diasporic writers, such as Giannina Braschi, Esmeralda Santiago, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Migdalia Cruz, and others. In a special edition of CENTRO, read Carmen Haydée Rivera 's essay on Puerto Rican diasporic writer Giannina Braschi, the subject of the academic anthology entitled Poets Philosophers Lovers. Review lists of academic books and essays on...