Las Rebeldes: Putinoika
Novelist and playwright Carmen Boullosa presents poet and philosopher Giannina Braschi in the 2025 edition of “LAS REBELDES, Rebel Hispanoamerican Women Writers and Artists” at Macaulay Honors College in New York City. There will be a dramatic reading by Giannina Braschi from her new book PUTINOIKA, an epic tragicomedy about the Trump and Putin era.
LAS REBELDES Q&A
Nuria Morgado, Director of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE) and Professor of Hispanic Studies at the College of Staten Island and the CUNY Graduate Center.
LAS REBELDES, Rebel Hispanoamerican Women Writers and Artists, is a series of dynamic, interactive panel discussions celebrating the work of rebel women. Join us to meet an array of powerful and vocal women from different geographies, backgrounds, and cultures at the Macaulay building on the Upper West Side.
Las Rebeldes events are free and open to all.
More about PUTINOIKA
“In Giannina Braschi’s churning imagination, in her exuberant, upwelling, hilarious and mortifying performances of wonderment, howl, synchronic time, ethical insistence, and linguistic swirl, it’s not unusual to find words such as ‘generosity’ and ‘spirit’ leading, in the same sentence, to ‘welfare,’ ‘radiation,’ and ‘tax deductions.’ If, as in Ezra Pound’s translation of Aristotle, the ‘swift perception of relations’ is truly the ‘hallmark of genius,’ it’s in the brightly lit halls of Braschi’s books where poetry is tested and stamped with such a mark. Like her character, Frenzy, she’s a provocateur who believes in and pledges her fidelity only to ‘everything that exists.’”—Forrest Gander, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author of Mojave Ghost
“Putinoikais a luminous book. Its light comes from an apparent chaos, a mirror of our time, written in a precise, profane, and sweetly convulsive language.” Miguel-Angel Zapata, Latino Book Review.
“Braschi destabilizes the Western concept of classical narration, which constructs itself upon causal relations that arbitrate narrative propositions into an organized plot. In her discursive artifact (a Menippean satire, after all), Braschi splices the novel with the dexterity of a DJ, tracing voices and replicating them, assembling a cacophony of resonances and knowledges. These voices operate as dispositifs, simultaneously organizing and producing the textual body, a site of incessant movement where narration unfolds as an interplay of fragments rather than a linear trajectory.” Elidio La Torre Lagares, Putinoika as a dispositif, SigloXX
Event tags: Latinx philosophers, Latino poets, Putinoika events, Las Rebeldes, Carmen Boullosa