Poets, philosophers, lovers : on the writings of Giannina Braschi
Frederick Luis Aldama (Editor),Tess O'Dwyer (Editor),Ilan Stavans
"This collection of essays, by fifteen scholars across diverse fields, explores forty years of writing by Giannina Braschi, one of the most revolutionary Latinx authors of her generation. Since the 1980s, Braschi's linguistic and structural ingenuities, radical thinking, and poetic hilarity have spanned the genres of theatre, poetry, fiction, essay, musical, manifesto, political philosophy, and spoken word. Her best-known titles are El imperio de los sueños, Yo-Yo Boing!, and United States of Banana. She writes in Spanish, Spanglish, and English and embraces timely and enduring subjects: love, liberty, creativity, environment, economy, censorship, borders, immigration, debt, incarceration, colonialization, terrorism, and revolution. Her work has been widely adapted into theater, photography, film, lithography, painting, sculpture, comics, and music. The essays in this volume explore the marvelous ways that Braschi's texts shake upside down our ideas of ourselves and enrich our understanding of how powerful narratives can wake us to our higher expectations"-- Provided by publisher
Print Book,English, 2020
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 2020
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 196 pages ; 24 cm.
9780822946182, 0822946181
1143649021
Foreword / Ilan Stavans
Introduction / Frederick Luis Aldama
Vanguard forms and Latinx sensibilities. The uncommon wealth of art : poetic progress as resistance to the commodification of culture in United States of Banana / Madelena Gonzalez
Rompiendo esquemas : catastrophic bravery in United States of Banana / John "Rio" Riofrio
Exile and burial of ontological sameness : a dialogue between Zarathustra and Giannina / Anne Ashbaugh
Yo-Yo Boing! Or literature as a translingual practice / Francisco Moreno-Fernández
Bilingual Big Bang : Giannina Braschi's trilogy levels the Spanish-English playing field / Maritza Stanchich
Persuasive art of dramatic voices. Giannina and Braschi : a polyphony of voices / Cristina Garrigós
The poetry of Giannina Braschi : art and magic in Assault on time / Laura R. Loustau
the human barnyard : rhetoric, identification, and symbolic representation in United States of Banana / Elizabeth Lowry
Gamifying world literature : Giannina Braschi's United States of Banana / Daniela Daniele
Intermedial poetics and radical thinking. Leaping off the page : Giannina Braschi's intermedialities / Dorian Lugo Bertrán
Free-dom : United States of Banana and the limits of sovereignty / Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús
The holy trinity : money, power, and success in United States of Banana / Francisco José Ramos
My dinner with Giannina : Rolando Pérez interviews Giannina Braschi