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...
Puerto Rican Playwrights Notable Nuyorican and Puerto Rican Playwrights Giannina Braschi Migdalia Cruz Emilio Díaz Valcárcel Quiara Alegría Hudes René Marqués Pedro Pietri Miguel Piñero Carmen Rivera Luis Rafael Sánchez Alejandro Tapia y Rivera Lin Manuel Miranda Books about Puerto Rican Playwrights/Theatre Recent Puerto Rican Theater: Five Plays from New Yor Pragmatic Liberation and the Politics...
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"
JOSEFINA RIVERA DE ALVAREZ, "LITERATURA PUERTORRIQUEÑA:
SU PROCESO EN EL TIEMPO".
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Giannina Braschi: Asalto al tiempo
Centro features book reviews of Puerto Rican diasporic writers. Read Carmen Haydée Rivera 's essay on Puerto Rican diasporic writer Giannina Braschi, the subject of the academic anthology entitled Poets Philosophers Lovers. "Braschi is one of the most multifaceted and innovative diasporic Puerto Rican writers of the past decades. Her literary works, published in English, Spanish, and Spanglish...
Late-Stage American Empire Conference American Studies Association Annual Meeting 2025 November 19, 2025 Headline Event: Giannina Braschi “Radical Imagination and the Transcolonial Condition: Giannina Braschi‘s Literary Dispositifs” featuring Giannina Braschi, Elidio La Torre Lagares, Carmen Haydee Rivera, Nuria Morgado, and others. Since the end of the Cold War, we have heard a...
Famous Writing Routines interviews Giannina Braschi. "Written during the pandemic, Putinoika features a surreal mix of real and imagined characters—Trump, Melania, Bacchus, the Muses, and more—all thrown together in a collapsing world that feels a little too familiar. In this interview, Braschi talks about how the book came together, why movement helped unlock new ideas, and how she sees...
"Giannina Braschi has never been one to stick to a single form. Known for blending poetry, fiction, theater, and political commentary, she’s written everything from the iconic Spanglish novel Yo-Yo Boing! to the satirical epic United States of Banana. Her latest book, Putinoika, continues in that spirit—mixing poetry, drama, philosophy, and humor into one dense, defiant work. Written during the...