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Master Printer Giorgio Upiglio’s Libri d’Artista

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Italian master printer Giorgio Upiglio (1932–2013) made his Milan studio, Grafica Uno, an international center for avant-garde printmaking and libri d’artista. He collaborated with artists and writers including Marcel Duchamp, Lucio Fontana, Giorgio de Chirico, Wifredo Lam, and Günter Grass. Among the studio’s rare artist’s books is the 1987 edition of El libro de payasos y bufones, pairing...

Putinoika de Giannina Braschi

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Carátula. Putinoika de Giannina Braschi: colectficción y poética de la descomposición. En este análisis, Priscilla Gac-Artigas explora Putinoika (2024), la más reciente y provocadora obra de la escritora puertorriqueña Giannina Braschi. Gac-Artigas propone que Putinoika encarna una poética colectiva y performativa que desborda los límites del testimonio individual para configurar un “nosotros”...

Autoficción especulativa y literatura antidistópica: Giannina Braschi según Patricia López-Gay

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Patricia López-Gay sitúa la obra reciente de Giannina Braschi en el cruce de la autoficción especulativa, la literatura antidistópica, la política y los estudios de género. Presentado inicialmente en el XVII Congreso de la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (ASALE), el ensayo lee Estados Unidos de Banana y PUTINOIKA dentro de una geografía panhispánica que reúne a escritores como Lina...

Americanidad latina

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CANAL SUR: El entretenimiento y la información se dan la mano en este programa de CanalSur Radio que dirige Javier Benítez. Con Paco Reyero. "El puertorriqueño Bad Bunny hizo historia recientemente al convertirse en el primer artista latino en actuar en solitario en el espectáculo del descanso de la Super Bowl. En su actuación lanzó un mensaje: Juntos, somos América. Hablamos con Giannina...

Fun Facts about American Poets

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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 in Literature: Influential Writers to Read and Study

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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 Philosophers: From Sor Juana and Leopoldo Zea to Giannina Braschi

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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...

Latin American Women Philosophers

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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...

Puerto Rican Academy of the Spanish Language: Programs, Research, History

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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...

Latinx Comics Studies: Teaching United States of Banana

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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...