Prepare for your next "Did You Know Quiz" on American Poetry. Enjoy this list of quirky, fun facts about Contemporary American Poets, spanning the objects they carry in their pockets to the sports they master, and their lifelong obsessions.
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Women’s Voices in Literature: 21 Influential Authors crosses two centuries of writing, moving from Mary Shelley, George Eliot, and the Brontë sisters through Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, and Susan Sontag to Margaret Atwood, Amy Tan, Giannina Braschi, Naomi Klein, J. K. Rowling, and Suzanne Collins. Originally assembled by the University of Texas Permian Basin, the selection offers teachers...
Latin American philosophy confronts colonialism, identity, liberation, language, gender, and political power. From Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, José Martí, José Carlos Mariátegui, and Leopoldo Zea to Enrique Dussel, María Lugones, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Giannina Braschi, Latin American philosophers have challenged inherited definitions of freedom and intellectual authority. This introduction places...
This chronological guide introduces the women who shaped Latin American philosophy across Latin America, the Caribbean, and their diasporas, from Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz to María Lugones, Gloria Anzaldúa, Ofelia Schutte, Susan Nuccetelli, Linda Martín Alcoff, Giannina Braschi, and contemporary decolonial feminist thinkers. It explores their contributions to knowledge, freedom, colonialism...
The Puerto Rican Academy of the Spanish Language (Academia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua Española or ACAPLE) is an institution dedicated to the study, preservation, and celebration of the Spanish language in Puerto Rico. The Academy hosts lectures, virtual seminars, and colloquia exploring linguistics, language history, and Puerto Rican coined expressions. The Academy presents Academy members in...
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)