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 suenos, 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.
About the AuthorFrederick Luis Aldama is Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor and University Distinguished Scholar at The Ohio State University. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of thirty books, and the editor or coeditor of seven book series. Aldama is the fou Tess O'Dwyer won the Columbia University Translation Center Award for her rendition of Giannina Braschi's postmodern poetry epic Empire of Dreams and translated Braschi's Spanglish classic Yo-Yo Boing! as well as Martin Rivas by Alberto Blest Gana.
Book InformationISBN 9780822946182
Author Frederick Luis AldamaFormat Hardback
Page Count 168
Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh Press