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Giannina Braschi

January 01, 1970

Giannina Braschi (born February 5, 1953) is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, dramatist, and scholar. Her notable works include Empire of Dreams (1988), Yo-Yo Boing! (1998) and United States of Banana (2011).

Giannina Braschi
Born (1953-02-05) February 5, 1953 (age 71)
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Occupation
  • Poet
  • novelist
  • dramatist
  • philosopher
NationalityPuerto Rican
Period1981–present
Genrepoetry, theater, novel, political philosophy
SubjectImmigration, independence, Capitalism, terrorism, Puerto Rico, revolution, love, American imperialism, September 11 attacks
Literary movementPostmodernism, Postcolonialism, Nuyorican, McOndo
Notable worksYo-Yo Boing!; Empire of Dreams; United States of Banana
Notable awardsNational Endowment for the Arts Fellow, PEN/Open Book Award, New York Foundation for the Arts, Danforth Scholarship, Ford Foundation, Rutgers Faculty Grant
RelativesMiguel Braschi, brother
Website
gianninabraschi.com

Braschi writes cross-genre literature and political philosophy in Spanish, Spanglish, and English.[1] Her work is a hybrid of poetry, metafiction, postdramatic theatre, memoir, manifesto, and political philosophy.[2] Her writings explore the enculturation journey of Hispanic immigrants, and dramatize the three main political options of Puerto Rico: independence, colony, and state.[3][4]

Early life edit

Giannina Braschi was born to an upper-class family of Italian ancestry in San Juan, Puerto Rico.[5][6] In her teen years, she was a founding member of the San Juan Children's Choir, a fashion model, and a tennis champion.[7] Her father Euripides ("Pilo") Braschi was also a tennis champion.[6][8]

Her brother, Miguel Braschi, was the plaintiff in a landmark case in 1989 regarding the rights of same-sex couples.[9]

In the 1970s, Braschi studied literature and philosophy in Madrid, Rome, Rouen, and London, before she settled in New York City.[7] She credited her start in poetry to the older Spanish poets who mentored her when she lived in Madrid: Claudio Rodríguez, Carlos Bousoño, Vicente Aleixandre, and Blas de Otero.[6][10]

Academic career edit

With a PhD in Hispanic Literatures from State University of New York, Stony Brook (1980), Braschi was a professor at Rutgers University, City University of New York, and Colgate University.[11] Braschi has received awards and fellowships from institutions including Ford Foundation, Danforth Scholarship, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Rutgers University, and PEN, among others.[12] She published a book on the poetry of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer and essays on Cervantes, Garcilaso, César Vallejo, Juan Ramon Jimenez and Federico García Lorca.[4]

Literary career edit

Braschi's work is situated in the Latino avant-garde, a "burgeoning body of work that testifies to Latino writers’ abiding interest in the avant-garde as a means for engaging ideas of material, social relevance".[13] Her writings are also placed within the fields of Postcolonial, Postmodern, and Nuyorican literatures, as well as Latino political philosophy.[2] Braschi is considered a "revolutionary voice" in contemporary Latin American literature".[14][15][16][17]

Spanish: El Imperio de los sueños edit

In the 1980s, Braschi wrote dramatic poetry in Spanish prose in New York City.[18][19] Her postmodern poetry titles were published in Barcelona, Spain, including: Asalto al tiempo (Assault on Time, 1980), La Comedia profana (Profane Comedy, 1985), and El Imperio de los sueños (Empire of Dreams, 1988).[18] She was part of the Nuyorican movement.[20][21] New York City is the site and subject of much of her poetry. In a climactic episode of Braschi's Empire of Dreams, "Pastoral or the Inquisition of Memories", shepherds invade 5th Avenue during the Puerto Rican Day Parade and take over the City of New York; the shepherds ring the bells of St. Patrick's Cathedral, and seize the observation deck of the Empire State Building.[22] Immigrant characters play the role of other characters, swapping names, genders, personal histories, and identities.[23] Alicia Ostriker situates her gender-bending and genre-blending poetry as having a "sheer erotic energy that defies definition and dogma."[24]

Spanglish: Yo-Yo Boing! edit

She published the first full-length Spanglish novel Yo-Yo Boing! in 1998. Yo-Yo Boing! explores "the lived experiences of urban life for Hispanics, as in the case with New York City, and her principal interest is in representing how individuals move in and out of different cultural coordinates, including one so crucial as language."[25][26] The book was written in an era of renewed calls for English-only laws, ethnic cleansing campaigns, and corporate censorship.[27] "For decades, Dominican and Puerto Rican authors have carried out a linguistic revolution", noted The Boston Globe, "and Giannina Braschi, especially in her novel Yo-Yo Boing!, testify to it".[28]

English: United States of Banana edit

Braschi published the geopolitical comic-tragedy United States of Banana, her first book written entirely in English, in 2011.[10][11] It is a postmodern cross-genre work that opens with the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9/11.[13] The work is a scathing critique of 21st-century capitalism and the global war on terror.[29] Subjects include immigration, mass incarceration, financial terrorism, colonial debt structures, and "power imbalances within the Americas."[13] The work is celebratory of foreign influences.[30] Braschi stated in Evergreen Review that she considered herself "more French than Beckett, Picasso and Gertrude Stein", and identifies as the "granddaughter of Alfred Jarry and Antonin Artaud, bastard child of Samuel Beckett and James Joyce, half-sister to Heiner Müller, kissing cousin of Tadeusz Kantor, and lover of Witkiewicz".[31]

Adaptations and translations edit

Giannina Braschi's texts have been adapted and applied to popular culture and fields such as television comedy, chamber music, comic books, industrial design, and ecological urban planning.[32] Michael Zansky has used Braschi's texts in his paintings and Michael Somoroff has created short films with her works. There is a theater play by Juan Pablo Felix and a graphic novel by Joakim Lindengren of United States of Banana.[33][34][35] Puerto Rican composer Gabriel Bouche Caro has composed chamber music works with her poems.[36] There is a namesake Giannina chair designed by American industrial designer Ian Stell.[37] Her books have been translated into English by Tess O'Dwyer, into Spanish by Manuel Broncano, and into Swedish by Helena Eriksson and Hannah Nordenhok.[38][39][40]

Political activism edit

Braschi is an advocate for Puerto Rican independence.[41] She declared the independence of Puerto Rico in United States of Banana[42] and stated in the press that "Liberty is not an option — it is a human right."[43] In the 1990s, she protested the United States Navy's bombing exercises in Vieques, along with politicians Rubén Berríos and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., singers Danny Rivera and Willie Colón, and fellow authors Ana Lydia Vega and Rigoberta Menchú.[44] Braschi spoke on a panel on "The New Censorship" at the PEN 2012 World Voices Festival where she offered "a critique of 21st century capitalism in which [she] condemned corporate censorship and control."[45] In July 2019, Braschi led early marches outside La Fortaleza in Old San Juan to demand the resignation of Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rossello, and joined massive protests, with singers Bad Bunny, Residente, and Ricky Martin, that led to the Governor's resignation.[46][47]

Books edit

  • Urbanismo ecológico en América Latina[48]. Mohsen Mostafavi, Gareth Doherty, Marina Correia, Ana Maria Duran Calisto, and Luis Valenzuela (eds.). Editorial Gustavo Gili/Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2019. ISBN 9788425229480.
  • Two Crowns of The Egg, with Michael Somoroff, Donald Kuspit.[49] ISBN 886208353X
  • Estados Unidos de Banana, with Manuel Broncano, AmazonCrossing, Madrid, 2015. ISBN 978-1503934047
  • United States of Banana, AmazonCrossing, Seattle, 2011. ISBN 978-1611090673
  • Yo-Yo Boing!, AmazonCrossing, Seattle, 2011.
  • Empire of Dreams, AmazonCrossing, Seattle, 2011.
  • El imperio de los sueños, Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, 2000.
  • Yo-Yo Boing!, Latin American Literary Review, Pittsburgh, 1998.
  • Empire of Dreams (English translation by Tess O'Dwyer; Introduction by Alicia Ostriker), Yale University Press, New Haven/London, 1994.
  • El imperio de los sueños, Anthropos Editorial del hombre, Barcelona, 1988.
  • Libro de payasos y bufones, Grafica Uno, Giorgio Upiglio, Milan, 1987.
  • La comedia profana, Anthropos Editorial del hombre, Barcelona, 1985.
  • Asalto al tiempo, Ambitos Literarios, Barcelona, 1980.

Scholarly works edit

  • "Breve tratado del poeta artista", Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, No. 433-36, 1986 (an essay on the poetry of Federico García Lorca).
  • "La gravedad de la armonía en ‘Soledades galerías y otros pomas’ de Machado," Plural, 1983 (an essay on the poetry of Antonio Machado).
  • "La poesía de Bécquer: El tiempo de los objetos o los espacios de la luz", Costa Amic, Mexico City, 1982 (a scholarly book on the poetry of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer).
  • "La Metamorfosis del ingenio en la Égloga III de Garcilaso," Revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos, 1979 (an essay on Garcilaso's third eclogue).
  • "Cinco personajes fugaces en el camino de Don Quijote", Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, No. 328, 1977 (an essay on Don Quixote by Cervantes).

Awards and honors edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "PEN World Voices: Giannina Braschi". PEN America. 2012-08-09. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
  2. ^ a b Aldama, Frederick Luis. "Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi". upittpress.org. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
  3. ^ Aldama, Frederick, and Christopher González. Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts. Routledge, 2018.
  4. ^ a b Perisic, Alexandra (November 2020). Precarious Crossings: Immigration, Neoliberalism, and the Atlantic. Ohio: The Ohio State University Press. pp. 152–173. hdl:1811/88397. ISBN 978-0-8142-5552-0.
  5. ^ Gonzalez, Christopher (2017). Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature. Ohio: The Ohio State University Press. pp. 93–95. ISBN 978-0-8142-5441-7.
  6. ^ a b c Rivera, Carmen H. (2011). "El poder de la palabra y la experiencia transnacional: una entrevista con Giannina Braschi". Op. Cit. Revista del Centro de Investigaciones Históricas (in Spanish) (20): 181–201. ISSN 2578-5443.
  7. ^ a b Remeseira, Claudio Iván (August 25, 2013). . NBC Latino. Archived from the original on August 9, 2017. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
  8. ^ . Biographical Dictionary - s9.com. 2015-08-08. Archived from the original on 2022-01-17. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
  9. ^ Historical Society of the New York Courts (12 September 2019). "The Braschi Breakthrough: 30 Years Later, Looking Back on the Relationship Recognition Landmark". Historical Society of the New York Courts. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  10. ^ a b Sheeran, Amy, and Amanda M. Smith. "A Graphic Revolution: Talking Poetry & Politics with Giannina Braschi." Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures. 2.2 (2018): United States of 3-4.
  11. ^ a b Poets, Academy of American. "About Giannina Braschi | Academy of American Poets". poets.org.
  12. ^ Sommer, Doris (1998). Introduction to Yo-Yo Boing!. Pittsburgh: Latin American Literary Review Press. ISBN 978-0-935480-97-9.
  13. ^ a b c Riofrio, John (January 28, 2020). "Falling for debt: Giannina Braschi, the Latinx avant-garde, and financial terrorism in the United States of Banana". Latino Studies. SBN: 1476-3435: 66–81. doi:10.1057/s41276-019-00239-2. S2CID 212759434.
  14. ^ "Giannina Braschi". National Book Festival. Library of Congress. 2012. 'Braschi: one of the most revolutionary voices in Latin America today'
  15. ^ "About Giannina Braschi: Book Fest 12". National Book Festival Transcript and Webcast. Washington, DC: Library of Congress. September 2012. 'Braschi, a poet, essayist and novelist often described as cutting-edge, influential and even revolutionary'
  16. ^ Johnson, Hannah (May 26, 2011). "#BEA11: Books on Display, the Amazon Publishing Booth". Publishing Perspectives. 'Braschi is Puerto Rico's most influential and versatile writer of poetry, fiction, and essays'
  17. ^ . University of Oklahoma: World Literature Today. September–October 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-09-14. Retrieved 2012-08-12. 'One of the most revolutionary voices in Latin American'
  18. ^ a b Cruz-Malave, Arnaldo (September 1, 2014). "Under the Skirt of Liberty: Giannina Braschi Rewrites Empire". American Quarterly. 66 (3): 801–818. doi:10.1353/aq.2014.0042. S2CID 144702640.
  19. ^ Loustau, Laura (2002). Cuerpos errantes: Literatura latina y latinoamericana en Estados Unidos (Luisa Valenzuela and Giannina Braschi). Buenos Aires.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  20. ^ Marting, Diane E. (2010). "New/Nueva York in Giannina Braschi's "Poetic Egg": Fragile Identity, Postmodernism, and Globalization". The Global South. 4 (1): 167–182. doi:10.2979/gso.2010.4.1.167. ISSN 1932-8648. JSTOR 10.2979/gso.2010.4.1.167. S2CID 144342078.
  21. ^ Puga, Kristina (2013-04-27). "8 Poets Disclose their Favorite Lines of Poetry (Nuyorican poet Giannina Braschi on Vallejo)". NBC Latino. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
  22. ^ Carrión, María (1996-01-01). "Geography, (M)Other Tongues and the Role of Translation in Giannina Braschi's El imperio de los sueños". Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature. 20 (1). doi:10.4148/2334-4415.1385. ISSN 2334-4415.
  23. ^ Kuebler, Carolyn. "Review of Empire of Dreams". Review of Contemporary Fiction. 15 (1).
  24. ^ Introduction to Giannina Braschi's Empire of Dreams, Alicia Ostriker, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994
  25. ^ Lengua Fresca, co-edited by Ilan Stavans and Harold Augenbraum
  26. ^ Foster, David William (1999). Review of Yo-Yo Boing!. McLean, Illinois: Review of Contemporary Fiction. pp. 202–203.
  27. ^ Introduction to Giannina Braschi's Yo-Yo Boing!, Doris Sommer, Harvard University, 1998.
  28. ^ The Boston Globe, "Spanglish is everywhere now, which is no problema for some, but a pain in the cuello for purists", by Ilan Stavans, 14 September 2003.
  29. ^ Gonzalez, Madelena (2014). "United States of Banana (2011), Elizabeth Costello (2003) and Fury (2001): Portrait of the Writer as the 'Bad Subject' of Globalisation". Études britanniques contemporaines (46). doi:10.4000/ebc.1279.
  30. ^ Braschi, Giannina, "What to Read Now: Mixed-Genre Literature", World Literature Today, September–October 2012 [1] 2012-09-14 at the Wayback Machine
  31. ^ The Evergreen Review's 50th Anniversary Edition, (www.evergreenreview.com), Giannina Braschi, 2007.
  32. ^ O'Dwyer, Tess. Popping Up in Pop Culture and Other Unlikely Spaces: Latinx Author Giannina Braschi Crosses Over World Literature Today, Spring 2021.
  33. ^ Somoroff, Michael. Two Crowns of the Egg. Damiani. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  34. ^ United States of Banana: A Postcolonial Dramatic Fiction, Juan Pablo Felix, Columbia University Stages, New York, 2015
  35. ^ Lindengren, Joakim (2018). "Image from United States of Banana: A Comic Book, Cobolt, 2017". Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures. 2 (2, 2018): 3–4. doi:10.2979/chiricu.2.2.02. S2CID 192780262.
  36. ^ Bouche Caro, Gabriel. "Latinx Spaces: On Turning Giannina Braschi's Poetry into a Song Cycle," Spring 2021
  37. ^ New York State Writers Institute, The Conversation. "Stell designed this kinetic device to exist as a functional hybrid between typologies and named it after Giannina Braschi." December 7,2020.
  38. ^ Poets, Academy of American. "About Tess O'Dwyer | Academy of American Poets". poets.org.
  39. ^ "Drömmarnas imperium".
  40. ^ Smith, Amanda M.; Sheeran, Amy (Spring 2018). "A Graphic Revolution: Talking Poetry & Politics with Giannina Braschi". Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures. 2 (2): 130–142. doi:10.2979/chiricu.2.2.10. JSTOR 10.2979/chiricu.2.2.10. S2CID 158357009.
  41. ^ . Archived from the original on 2022-02-16. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
  42. ^ Stanchich, Maritza (2020). "Bilingual Big Bang: Giannina Braschi's Trilogy Levels the Spanish-English Playing Field". Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi. Frederick Luis Aldama, Ed. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 9780822946182.
  43. ^ "La libertad no es una opción, es un derecho". El Nuevo Dia. September 24, 2012.
  44. ^ "The Puerto Rican Struggle and the Plight of Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera". TPQ. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  45. ^ Roth, Larry (May 7, 2012). "Rushdie Brings PEN Festival to Close". The New York Times.
  46. ^ Figueroa, Jan Javier (July 16, 2019). "Diferentes opiniones sobre manifestaciones en Fortaleza Las manifestaciones exigiendo la renuncia al gobernador, Ricardo Rosselló, continuarán mañana a las cinco de la tarde". El Vocero, Puerto Rican News. El Vocero. Retrieved July 16, 2019.
  47. ^ Cortez Chico, Ricardo; Lopez Alicea, Keila (July 18, 2019). "Mobilized by Indignation: Demanding the Resignation of Governor Rossello". Front Page News Image. The Daily News of Puerto Rico. El Nuevo Dia.
  48. ^ Mostafavi, Mohsen; Doherty, Gareth; Correia, Marina; Braschi, Giannina (2016). "Ecological Urbanism in Latin America". Revista Brasileira de Gestão Urbana. 8 (1): 7–11. doi:10.1590/2175-3369.008.001.SE07. ISSN 2175-3369.
  49. ^ Somoroff, Michael (2014). Two Crowns of the Egg by Giannina Braschi and Michael Somoroff. Damiani. ISBN 978-8862083539.
  50. ^ "Giannina Braschi Wins National Award from North American Academy of the Spanish Language". PR Newswire. 2022-04-29. Retrieved 2022-10-07.

Further reading edit

  • Aldama, Frederick Luis, Ilan Stavans, and Tess O'Dwyer. (2020) Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi. U Pittsburgh. ISBN 9780822946182
  • Gonzalez, Christopher. (2017) Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature. The Ohio State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8142-5441-7
  • Gonzales, Madelena and Laplace-Claverie, Helene, “Minority Theatre on the Global Stage: Challenging Paradigms from the Margins," Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle, England, page xix and pages 255–264, 2012.
  • Marting, Diane E. (2010). "New/Nueva York in Giannina Braschi's 'Poetic Egg': Fragile Identity, Postmodernism, and Globalization." The Global South 4:1.
  • Torres-Padilla, J.L. (2007). "When Hybridity Doesn't Resist: Giannina Braschi's Yo-Yo Boing! In Complicating Constructions: Race, Ethnicity, and Hybridity in American Texts. U. of Washington P. Eds. David S. Goldstein and Audrey B. Thacker, 290-307.
  • Popovich, Ljudmila Mila (2010). "Metafictions, Migrations, Metalives: Narrative Innovations and Migrant Women’s Aesthetics in Giannina Braschi and Etel Adnan." International Journal of the Humanities 9:10. pp. 117–128.
  • Zimmerman, Marc (2011). "Defending Their Own in the Cold: The Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans", University of Illinois, Chicago

External links edit

 
Wikiquote has quotations related to Giannina Braschi.
  1. Library of Congress, National Book Festival, Giannina Braschi.
  2. , The Evergreen Review:"United States of Banana" Reviewed by Cristina Garrigos and Daniela Daniele (2011)
  3. [3], WAPA TV, "Escritora puertorriqueña que poco a poco se ha abierto paso en Estados Unidos" by Normando Valentín, December 2011.
  4. Video on YouTube, television program in Spanish, "Celebrities desde Nueva York," con Alfonso Diaz, (Giannina Braschi on the collapse of the American Empire on September 11), November 2011.
  5. , "What to Read Now: Mixed-Genre Literature," World Literature Today, September–October 2012.

January 01, 1970
giannina, braschi, born, february, 1953, puerto, rican, poet, novelist, dramatist, scholar, notable, works, include, empire, dreams, 1988, boing, 1998, united, states, banana, 2011, born, 1953, february, 1953, juan, puerto, ricooccupationpoet, novelist, dramat. Giannina Braschi born February 5 1953 is a Puerto Rican poet novelist dramatist and scholar Her notable works include Empire of Dreams 1988 Yo Yo Boing 1998 and United States of Banana 2011 Giannina BraschiBorn 1953 02 05 February 5 1953 age 71 San Juan Puerto RicoOccupationPoet novelist dramatist philosopherNationalityPuerto RicanPeriod1981 presentGenrepoetry theater novel political philosophySubjectImmigration independence Capitalism terrorism Puerto Rico revolution love American imperialism September 11 attacksLiterary movementPostmodernism Postcolonialism Nuyorican McOndoNotable worksYo Yo Boing Empire of Dreams United States of BananaNotable awardsNational Endowment for the Arts Fellow PEN Open Book Award New York Foundation for the Arts Danforth Scholarship Ford Foundation Rutgers Faculty GrantRelativesMiguel Braschi brotherWebsitegianninabraschi wbr com Braschi writes cross genre literature and political philosophy in Spanish Spanglish and English 1 Her work is a hybrid of poetry metafiction postdramatic theatre memoir manifesto and political philosophy 2 Her writings explore the enculturation journey of Hispanic immigrants and dramatize the three main political options of Puerto Rico independence colony and state 3 4 Contents 1 Early life 2 Academic career 3 Literary career 3 1 Spanish El Imperio de los suenos 3 2 Spanglish Yo Yo Boing 3 3 English United States of Banana 4 Adaptations and translations 5 Political activism 6 Books 7 Scholarly works 8 Awards and honors 9 See also 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External linksEarly life editGiannina Braschi was born to an upper class family of Italian ancestry in San Juan Puerto Rico 5 6 In her teen years she was a founding member of the San Juan Children s Choir a fashion model and a tennis champion 7 Her father Euripides Pilo Braschi was also a tennis champion 6 8 Her brother Miguel Braschi was the plaintiff in a landmark case in 1989 regarding the rights of same sex couples 9 In the 1970s Braschi studied literature and philosophy in Madrid Rome Rouen and London before she settled in New York City 7 She credited her start in poetry to the older Spanish poets who mentored her when she lived in Madrid Claudio Rodriguez Carlos Bousono Vicente Aleixandre and Blas de Otero 6 10 Academic career editWith a PhD in Hispanic Literatures from State University of New York Stony Brook 1980 Braschi was a professor at Rutgers University City University of New York and Colgate University 11 Braschi has received awards and fellowships from institutions including Ford Foundation Danforth Scholarship National Endowment for the Arts New York Foundation for the Arts Rutgers University and PEN among others 12 She published a book on the poetry of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer and essays on Cervantes Garcilaso Cesar Vallejo Juan Ramon Jimenez and Federico Garcia Lorca 4 Literary career editBraschi s work is situated in the Latino avant garde a burgeoning body of work that testifies to Latino writers abiding interest in the avant garde as a means for engaging ideas of material social relevance 13 Her writings are also placed within the fields of Postcolonial Postmodern and Nuyorican literatures as well as Latino political philosophy 2 Braschi is considered a revolutionary voice in contemporary Latin American literature 14 15 16 17 Spanish El Imperio de los suenos edit In the 1980s Braschi wrote dramatic poetry in Spanish prose in New York City 18 19 Her postmodern poetry titles were published in Barcelona Spain including Asalto al tiempo Assault on Time 1980 La Comedia profana Profane Comedy 1985 and El Imperio de los suenos Empire of Dreams 1988 18 She was part of the Nuyorican movement 20 21 New York City is the site and subject of much of her poetry In a climactic episode of Braschi s Empire of Dreams Pastoral or the Inquisition of Memories shepherds invade 5th Avenue during the Puerto Rican Day Parade and take over the City of New York the shepherds ring the bells of St Patrick s Cathedral and seize the observation deck of the Empire State Building 22 Immigrant characters play the role of other characters swapping names genders personal histories and identities 23 Alicia Ostriker situates her gender bending and genre blending poetry as having a sheer erotic energy that defies definition and dogma 24 Spanglish Yo Yo Boing edit She published the first full length Spanglish novel Yo Yo Boing in 1998 Yo Yo Boing explores the lived experiences of urban life for Hispanics as in the case with New York City and her principal interest is in representing how individuals move in and out of different cultural coordinates including one so crucial as language 25 26 The book was written in an era of renewed calls for English only laws ethnic cleansing campaigns and corporate censorship 27 For decades Dominican and Puerto Rican authors have carried out a linguistic revolution noted The Boston Globe and Giannina Braschi especially in her novel Yo Yo Boing testify to it 28 English United States of Banana edit Braschi published the geopolitical comic tragedy United States of Banana her first book written entirely in English in 2011 10 11 It is a postmodern cross genre work that opens with the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9 11 13 The work is a scathing critique of 21st century capitalism and the global war on terror 29 Subjects include immigration mass incarceration financial terrorism colonial debt structures and power imbalances within the Americas 13 The work is celebratory of foreign influences 30 Braschi stated in Evergreen Review that she considered herself more French than Beckett Picasso and Gertrude Stein and identifies as the granddaughter of Alfred Jarry and Antonin Artaud bastard child of Samuel Beckett and James Joyce half sister to Heiner Muller kissing cousin of Tadeusz Kantor and lover of Witkiewicz 31 Adaptations and translations editGiannina Braschi s texts have been adapted and applied to popular culture and fields such as television comedy chamber music comic books industrial design and ecological urban planning 32 Michael Zansky has used Braschi s texts in his paintings and Michael Somoroff has created short films with her works There is a theater play by Juan Pablo Felix and a graphic novel by Joakim Lindengren of United States of Banana 33 34 35 Puerto Rican composer Gabriel Bouche Caro has composed chamber music works with her poems 36 There is a namesake Giannina chair designed by American industrial designer Ian Stell 37 Her books have been translated into English by Tess O Dwyer into Spanish by Manuel Broncano and into Swedish by Helena Eriksson and Hannah Nordenhok 38 39 40 Political activism editBraschi is an advocate for Puerto Rican independence 41 She declared the independence of Puerto Rico in United States of Banana 42 and stated in the press that Liberty is not an option it is a human right 43 In the 1990s she protested the United States Navy s bombing exercises in Vieques along with politicians Ruben Berrios and Robert F Kennedy Jr singers Danny Rivera and Willie Colon and fellow authors Ana Lydia Vega and Rigoberta Menchu 44 Braschi spoke on a panel on The New Censorship at the PEN 2012 World Voices Festival where she offered a critique of 21st century capitalism in which she condemned corporate censorship and control 45 In July 2019 Braschi led early marches outside La Fortaleza in Old San Juan to demand the resignation of Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rossello and joined massive protests with singers Bad Bunny Residente and Ricky Martin that led to the Governor s resignation 46 47 Books editUrbanismo ecologico en America Latina 48 Mohsen Mostafavi Gareth Doherty Marina Correia Ana Maria Duran Calisto and Luis Valenzuela eds Editorial Gustavo Gili Harvard University Graduate School of Design 2019 ISBN 9788425229480 Two Crowns of The Egg with Michael Somoroff Donald Kuspit 49 ISBN 886208353X Estados Unidos de Banana with Manuel Broncano AmazonCrossing Madrid 2015 ISBN 978 1503934047 United States of Banana AmazonCrossing Seattle 2011 ISBN 978 1611090673 Yo Yo Boing AmazonCrossing Seattle 2011 Empire of Dreams AmazonCrossing Seattle 2011 El imperio de los suenos Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico Rio Piedras 2000 Yo Yo Boing Latin American Literary Review Pittsburgh 1998 Empire of Dreams English translation by Tess O Dwyer Introduction by Alicia Ostriker Yale University Press New Haven London 1994 El imperio de los suenos Anthropos Editorial del hombre Barcelona 1988 Libro de payasos y bufones Grafica Uno Giorgio Upiglio Milan 1987 La comedia profana Anthropos Editorial del hombre Barcelona 1985 Asalto al tiempo Ambitos Literarios Barcelona 1980 Scholarly works edit Breve tratado del poeta artista Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos No 433 36 1986 an essay on the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca La gravedad de la armonia en Soledades galerias y otros pomas de Machado Plural 1983 an essay on the poetry of Antonio Machado La poesia de Becquer El tiempo de los objetos o los espacios de la luz Costa Amic Mexico City 1982 a scholarly book on the poetry of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer La Metamorfosis del ingenio en la Egloga III de Garcilaso Revista canadiense de estudios hispanicos 1979 an essay on Garcilaso s third eclogue Cinco personajes fugaces en el camino de Don Quijote Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos No 328 1977 an essay on Don Quixote by Cervantes Awards and honors editDanforth Scholarship El Diario La Prensa s Outstanding Women of 1998 Ford Foundation Fellowship National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Peter S Reed Foundation InterAmericas PEN American Center s Open Book Award Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena grant Enrique Anderson Imbert 2022 50 See also editHysterical realism Puerto Rican literature American literature in Spanish American poetry Caribbean poetryReferences edit PEN World Voices Giannina Braschi PEN America 2012 08 09 Retrieved 2020 04 30 a b Aldama Frederick Luis Poets Philosophers Lovers On the Writings of Giannina Braschi upittpress org Retrieved 2020 04 30 Aldama Frederick and Christopher Gonzalez Latinx Studies The Key Concepts Routledge 2018 a b Perisic Alexandra November 2020 Precarious Crossings Immigration Neoliberalism and the Atlantic Ohio The Ohio State University Press pp 152 173 hdl 1811 88397 ISBN 978 0 8142 5552 0 Gonzalez Christopher 2017 Permissible Narratives The Promise of Latino a Literature Ohio The Ohio State University Press pp 93 95 ISBN 978 0 8142 5441 7 a b c Rivera Carmen H 2011 El poder de la palabra y la experiencia transnacional una entrevista con Giannina Braschi Op Cit Revista del Centro de Investigaciones Historicas in Spanish 20 181 201 ISSN 2578 5443 a b Remeseira Claudio Ivan August 25 2013 Summer reads brilliant takes on Nuyoricans random murder and narco literatura NBC Latino Archived from the original on August 9 2017 Retrieved April 28 2019 Braschi Family Biographies Biographical Dictionary s9 com 2015 08 08 Archived from the original on 2022 01 17 Retrieved 2020 04 30 Historical Society of the New York Courts 12 September 2019 The Braschi Breakthrough 30 Years Later Looking Back on the Relationship Recognition Landmark Historical Society of the New York Courts Retrieved 3 April 2023 a b Sheeran Amy and Amanda M Smith A Graphic Revolution Talking Poetry amp Politics with Giannina Braschi Chiricu Journal Latina o Literatures Arts and Cultures 2 2 2018 United States of 3 4 a b Poets Academy of American About Giannina Braschi Academy of American Poets poets org Sommer Doris 1998 Introduction to Yo Yo Boing Pittsburgh Latin American Literary Review Press ISBN 978 0 935480 97 9 a b c Riofrio John January 28 2020 Falling for debt Giannina Braschi the Latinx avant garde and financial terrorism in the United States of Banana Latino Studies SBN 1476 3435 66 81 doi 10 1057 s41276 019 00239 2 S2CID 212759434 Giannina Braschi National Book Festival Library of Congress 2012 Braschi one of the most revolutionary voices in Latin America today About Giannina Braschi Book Fest 12 National Book Festival Transcript and Webcast Washington DC Library of Congress September 2012 Braschi a poet essayist and novelist often described as cutting edge influential and even revolutionary Johnson Hannah May 26 2011 BEA11 Books on Display the Amazon Publishing Booth Publishing Perspectives Braschi is Puerto Rico s most influential and versatile writer of poetry fiction and essays About Giannina Braschi University of Oklahoma World Literature Today September October 2012 Archived from the original on 2012 09 14 Retrieved 2012 08 12 One of the most revolutionary voices in Latin American a b Cruz Malave Arnaldo September 1 2014 Under the Skirt of Liberty Giannina Braschi Rewrites Empire American Quarterly 66 3 801 818 doi 10 1353 aq 2014 0042 S2CID 144702640 Loustau Laura 2002 Cuerpos errantes Literatura latina y latinoamericana en Estados Unidos Luisa Valenzuela and Giannina Braschi Buenos Aires a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location missing publisher link Marting Diane E 2010 New Nueva York in Giannina Braschi s Poetic Egg Fragile Identity Postmodernism and Globalization The Global South 4 1 167 182 doi 10 2979 gso 2010 4 1 167 ISSN 1932 8648 JSTOR 10 2979 gso 2010 4 1 167 S2CID 144342078 Puga Kristina 2013 04 27 8 Poets Disclose their Favorite Lines of Poetry Nuyorican poet Giannina Braschi on Vallejo NBC Latino Retrieved 2020 04 30 Carrion Maria 1996 01 01 Geography M Other Tongues and the Role of Translation in Giannina Braschi s El imperio de los suenos Studies in 20th amp 21st Century Literature 20 1 doi 10 4148 2334 4415 1385 ISSN 2334 4415 Kuebler Carolyn Review of Empire of Dreams Review of Contemporary Fiction 15 1 Introduction to Giannina Braschi s Empire of Dreams Alicia Ostriker New Haven Yale University Press 1994 Lengua Fresca co edited by Ilan Stavans and Harold Augenbraum Foster David William 1999 Review of Yo Yo Boing McLean Illinois Review of Contemporary Fiction pp 202 203 Introduction to Giannina Braschi s Yo Yo Boing Doris Sommer Harvard University 1998 The Boston Globe Spanglish is everywhere now which is no problema for some but a pain in the cuello for purists by Ilan Stavans 14 September 2003 Gonzalez Madelena 2014 United States of Banana 2011 Elizabeth Costello 2003 and Fury 2001 Portrait of the Writer as the Bad Subject of Globalisation Etudes britanniques contemporaines 46 doi 10 4000 ebc 1279 Braschi Giannina What to Read Now Mixed Genre Literature World Literature Today September October 2012 1 Archived 2012 09 14 at the Wayback Machine The Evergreen Review s 50th Anniversary Edition www evergreenreview com Giannina Braschi 2007 O Dwyer Tess Popping Up in Pop Culture and Other Unlikely Spaces Latinx Author Giannina Braschi Crosses Over World Literature Today Spring 2021 Somoroff Michael Two Crowns of the Egg Damiani a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a website ignored help United States of Banana A Postcolonial Dramatic Fiction Juan Pablo Felix Columbia University Stages New York 2015 Lindengren Joakim 2018 Image from United States of Banana A Comic Book Cobolt 2017 Chiricu Journal Latina o Literatures Arts and Cultures 2 2 2018 3 4 doi 10 2979 chiricu 2 2 02 S2CID 192780262 Bouche Caro Gabriel Latinx Spaces On Turning Giannina Braschi s Poetry into a Song Cycle Spring 2021 New York State Writers Institute The Conversation Stell designed this kinetic device to exist as a functional hybrid between typologies and named it after Giannina Braschi December 7 2020 Poets Academy of American About Tess O Dwyer Academy of American Poets poets org Drommarnas imperium Smith Amanda M Sheeran Amy Spring 2018 A Graphic Revolution Talking Poetry amp Politics with Giannina Braschi Chiricu Journal Latina o Literatures Arts and Cultures 2 2 130 142 doi 10 2979 chiricu 2 2 10 JSTOR 10 2979 chiricu 2 2 10 S2CID 158357009 Puerto Rico I Took Liberties World Policy Archived from the original on 2022 02 16 Retrieved 2020 04 30 Stanchich Maritza 2020 Bilingual Big Bang Giannina Braschi s Trilogy Levels the Spanish English Playing Field Poets Philosophers Lovers On the Writings of Giannina Braschi Frederick Luis Aldama Ed Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press ISBN 9780822946182 La libertad no es una opcion es un derecho El Nuevo Dia September 24 2012 The Puerto Rican Struggle and the Plight of Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera TPQ Retrieved 2020 08 25 Roth Larry May 7 2012 Rushdie Brings PEN Festival to Close The New York Times Figueroa Jan Javier July 16 2019 Diferentes opiniones sobre manifestaciones en Fortaleza Las manifestaciones exigiendo la renuncia al gobernador Ricardo Rossello continuaran manana a las cinco de la tarde El Vocero Puerto Rican News El Vocero Retrieved July 16 2019 Cortez Chico Ricardo Lopez Alicea Keila July 18 2019 Mobilized by Indignation Demanding the Resignation of Governor Rossello Front Page News Image The Daily News of Puerto Rico El Nuevo Dia Mostafavi Mohsen Doherty Gareth Correia Marina Braschi Giannina 2016 Ecological Urbanism in Latin America Revista Brasileira de Gestao Urbana 8 1 7 11 doi 10 1590 2175 3369 008 001 SE07 ISSN 2175 3369 Somoroff Michael 2014 Two Crowns of the Egg by Giannina Braschi and Michael Somoroff Damiani ISBN 978 8862083539 Giannina Braschi Wins National Award from North American Academy of the Spanish Language PR Newswire 2022 04 29 Retrieved 2022 10 07 Further reading editAldama Frederick Luis Ilan Stavans and Tess O Dwyer 2020 Poets Philosophers Lovers On the Writings of Giannina Braschi U Pittsburgh ISBN 9780822946182 Gonzalez Christopher 2017 Permissible Narratives The Promise of Latino a Literature The Ohio State University Press ISBN 978 0 8142 5441 7 Gonzales Madelena and Laplace Claverie Helene Minority Theatre on the Global Stage Challenging Paradigms from the Margins Cambridge Scholars Newcastle England page xix and pages 255 264 2012 Marting Diane E 2010 New Nueva York in Giannina Braschi s Poetic Egg Fragile Identity Postmodernism and Globalization The Global South 4 1 Torres Padilla J L 2007 When Hybridity Doesn t Resist Giannina Braschi s Yo Yo Boing In Complicating Constructions Race Ethnicity and Hybridity in American Texts U of Washington P Eds David S Goldstein and Audrey B Thacker 290 307 Popovich Ljudmila Mila 2010 Metafictions Migrations Metalives Narrative Innovations and Migrant Women s Aesthetics in Giannina Braschi and Etel Adnan International Journal of the Humanities 9 10 pp 117 128 Zimmerman Marc 2011 Defending Their Own in the Cold The Cultural Turns of U S Puerto Ricans University of Illinois ChicagoExternal links edit nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Giannina Braschi Library of Congress National Book Festival Giannina Braschi 2 The Evergreen Review United States of Banana Reviewed by Cristina Garrigos and Daniela Daniele 2011 3 WAPA TV Escritora puertorriquena que poco a poco se ha abierto paso en Estados Unidos by Normando Valentin December 2011 Video on YouTube television program in Spanish Celebrities desde Nueva York con Alfonso Diaz Giannina Braschi on the collapse of the American Empire on September 11 November 2011 4 What to Read Now Mixed Genre Literature World Literature Today September October 2012 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Giannina Braschi amp oldid 1203580275, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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