This teaching guide pairs Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Crossings, the open-access Rutgers University Press anthology edited by Fernanda Díaz-Basteris and Maite Urcaregui, with United States of Banana: A Graphic Novel by Giannina Braschi and Joakim Lindengren. Featuring Frederick Luis Aldama’s chapter on the graphic novel, the guide offers course pairings, discussion questions...
In “A Manual Against Censorship,” THE LETTER PODCAST brings together Mónica-Ramón Ríos’s literary framing, Giannina Braschi’s dramatic performance of Putinoika, and a conversation about Caribbean philosophy today, epic disaster,s art, and Braschian conceptual creations. Through figures such as a self-asserting chair and a Bacchus pregnant with the chorus, the episode introduces a cross-genre work...
This guide gathers essential Caribbean literature resources for readers, students, teachers, and scholars, including writers, journals, festivals, archives, poetry collections, and research organizations from across the region and its diasporas. Featured voices include Aimé Césaire, Maryse Condé, Frantz Fanon, Édouard Glissant, Giannina Braschi, Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat, Kamau...
American Book Review Putinoika American Book Review Putinoka by Giannina Braschi American Book Review 46:2 Reimagining Storytelling with Giannina Braschi Frederick Luis Aldama interviews Giannina Braschi for American Book Review EXCERPT Putinoika in American Book Review: Interventions Giannina Braschi, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, began her multifaceted journey as a fashion model, singer, and...
Read about the Puerto Rican Epic Poem Empire of Dreams by Giannina Braschi in World Literature Today.
(La epopeya puertorriqueña El imperio de los sueños)
Explore Latin American Women Authors from Sor Juana and Gabriela Mistral to Giannina Braschi and Giacondo Belli. Latin American women writers have long been at the forefront of global literary innovation, philosophical thought, and social advocacy. From 17th-century intellectual pioneers like Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz to contemporary diaspora writers reshaping cross-genre fiction and poetry...
CONTEMPORARY LATN AMERICAN AUTHORS In our thirty-sixth issue of Latin American Literature Today, we highlight the role of the literary critic with a cover feature dedicated to Christopher Domínguez Michael. Domínguez Michael is recognized as one of his generation’s definitive critics and intellectuals, and is the author of essential histories, biographies, and anthologies dedicated to the...
First published in Spanish in 1985, Giannina Braschi’s Profane Comedy combines contemporary poetry, theater, pastoral, music, and manifesto. The work later expanded to became the central section of the Postmodern poetry epic Empire of Dreams (1988).
Publicada originalmente en El Mundo en 1986, esta reseña de Juan Martínez Capó examina La comedia profana de Giannina Braschi como una obra de poesía puertorriqueña posmoderna donde convergen teatro, sueño, bacanal, filosofía y pastoral. El crítico destaca sus diálogos con Garcilaso, Góngora, Shakespeare, Lorca y Borges, su reinvención de la poesía del Siglo de Oro en Nueva York y el “sí...
Seminario Federico de Onís: "Conversatorio con Giannina Braschi a cargo de Carmen Dolores Hernández y María Inés Castro Ferrer." 20 de noviembre de 2025 El Seminario Federico de Onís, adscrito al Departamento de Estudios Hispánicos de la Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, es una unidad de apoyo a la investigación fundada en 1953 con una donación de 4,000...