The Literary Encyclopedia: Giannina Braschi Biography Giannina Braschi is a leading force of innovation in American and Latin American literature and political philosophy of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Braschi writes mixed-genre epic works in Spanish, Spanglish, and English about the marvels and travesties of the human flow—of mass migration, mass incarceration, democracy...
Rethinking the Latin American Canon. Based on an excerpt from The Literary Encyclopedia.... Giannina Braschi functions as a quintessential academic disruptor whose "notoriously unclassifiable" work mandates a rigorous rethinking of contemporary literary boundaries. Rejecting the passivity of conventional storytelling for a "new literary architecture" rooted in geometry and prophetic imagination...
Enjoy books by Puerto Rican poets today ranging from Willie Perdomo, Giannina Braschi, Edwin Torres, and Elisabet Velásquez in New York City to Mayra Santos, Roque Sala, Xavier Valcárcel on the island. Many more talented poets...
Here is a short list of Nuyorican and Puerto Rican women playwrights.
For a deeper dive, see list below of academic books on Nuyorican and Puerto Rican playwrights, novelists, and poets.
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See titles of American Epic poems from Walt Whitman and Longfellow to HD, Charles Olson, and Giannina Braschi.
Carolyn Kuebler reviews Empire of Dreams for The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Giannina Braschi has earned her preferred label of modern writer. Latin American, Puerto Rican, New Yorker, and feminist are apt labels as well, but though they might be selling points, they do little to describe her writing. Braschi writes with a strong poetic tradition behind her, and from her erudite standpoint...
Nuyorican Poetry Resources. Alphabetical and chronological lists of Nuyorican Poets, their famous titles, and links to academic essays and books on the Puerto Rican poetry movement. Nuyorican poets include: Miguel Algarín * Giannina Braschi * Caridad Luz * Sandra Esteves * María Fernández * Tato Laviera * Jesús Meléndez * Nancy Mercado * Aja Monet * Lara Montes * Willie Perdomo * Pedro Pietri *...
Flowersong's Essential Voices Newsletter Special Edition discusses how PUTINOIKA is gaining scholarly traction as Giannina Braschi enters The Literary Encyclopedia as a new addition to the literary canon. Flowersong is proud to consider Giannina Braschi a "Hall-of-Famer alongside MacArthur award winner Juan Felipe Herrera and Fuller Award winner Luis Alberto Urrea. Together, they are not just...
Boston College Libraries recommends Boom and Post-Boom novels by Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, José Donoso, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Roberto Bolaño, Cristina Peri Rossi, Elena Poniatowska, Severo Sarduy, Manuel Puig, Luisa Valenzuela, and Giannina Braschi.
List of contemporary Bacchae theater productions in festivals since 2000, plus a spotlight on three adaptions include Bakkhai by Anne Carson, PUTINOIKA by Giannina Braschi, and The Bacchae by Katherine Soper.