FIL RIO 2025 presents Puerto Rican poets, philosophers, novelists, filmmakers, musicians, and artists.
FIL RIO 2025
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Pratt Presents Giannina Braschi
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Pratt Institute presents a special event with Giannina Braschi reading PUTINOIKA for the LETTER PODCAST by Monica Ramon Rios. November 11, 2025 at 6:30pm at ARC-02 at Pratt in Brooklyn. Free and open to the public. Reception follows.
Faith vs Hope Quotes
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"Faith is about grounding, and hope is about flying." Giannina Braschi
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Nuyorican Women Playwrights
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Diasporic Journeys is a collection of interviews on contemporary Diasporic Puerto Rican and Nuyorican playwrights, poets, and novelists. The collection includes interviews with varied topics, thematic concerns, and accomplishments in each author’s life and works. Taken as a whole, the experiences of these writers provide insights into the effects of Puerto Rican migration and displacement from a...
Algorithm of Beauty
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A Companion to Literary Evaluation bridges the gap between the non-academic literary world, where evaluation is deeply ingrained, and the world of academia, where evaluation is rarely considered. Encouraging readers to formulate and articulate arguments that balance instinctive judgment and reasoned assessment, this unique volume addresses key issues regarding literary values from the perspective...
Map of Literature
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THE MAP OF LITERATURE At its center lie the myths and hymns of the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Egyptians, alongside the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. From there, it radiates outward to the Greek “archipelago” of drama, lyric, and philosophy, then spirals into the continents of Renaissance prose, Enlightenment treatises, Romantic poetry, and the proliferating genres of the...
Legendary Puerto Rican author
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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
United States of Banana Theater
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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
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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
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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."