Giannina Braschi

Giannina Braschi (born February 5, 1953 in San Juan ) is a Puerto Rican writer and scientist .

Life

Giannina Braschi came to New York City in 1977 and graduated from the State University of New York with a Ph.D. in Spanish literature. She then taught literature at Rutgers University , Queens College and Colgate University . She is considered a leading woman in the Nuyorican movement (a New York and Puerto Rican cultural movement ).

Literary development

Braschi's early works were based on the main poets of the Golden Century and the avant-garde authors of Latin America . She wrote a work on the romantic Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and essays on Cervantes , Vallejo and Garcia Lorca . Then she came into contact with the dramatic and philosophical books of French, German, Irish, Polish and Russian authors and was impressed by them. Although her books are classified as novels, her later works are experiments in both style and format and show many foreign influences.

Friederike C. Raderer said in a report on Puerto Rico on the Austrian ORF: With her novel "Yo-Yo Boing!" the mish-mash of languages ​​that is common among Hispanics in New York is a monument to the " Spanglish ".

plant

• "Asalto al tiempo", Ambitos Literarios, Barcelona, ​​1980. Spanish
• La poesía de Bécquer . Costa Amic, Mexico City 1982 (Spanish).
• "La comedia profana", Anthropos Editorial del hombre, Barcelona, ​​1985. Spanish
• "El imperio de los suenos", Anthropos Editorial del hombre, Barcelona, ​​1988. Spanish
• "Empire of Dreams" (English translation), Yale University Press, New Haven / London, 1994. English
• “Yo-Yo Boing!” Latin American Literary Review, Pittsburgh, 1998. Spanglish , Spanish, and English
• "El imperio de los suenos", Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, 2000.
• "United States of Banana," AmazonCrossing, Seattle, 2011. English
• "Yo-Yo Boing !," AmazonCrossing, Seattle, 2011. English
• "Empire of Dreams," AmazonCrossing, Seattle, 2011. English

Prizes and awards

• Danforth 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
• Reed Foundation / InterAmericas
• PEN American Center's Open Book Award
• Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena / grant

literature

• "The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: An Anthology," Ilan Stavans , Farrar Strauss & Giroux, 2011.
• "The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature", Ilan Stavans & Harold Augenbraum, WW Norton & Co., 2011.
• “Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language,” Ilan Stavans, Harper Collins, 2003.
• "¿Encanto o espanto? Identidad y nación en la novela puertorriqueña actual", Van HaesendonckVervuert-Iberoamericana, Frankfurt-Madrid 2008.
• “Literatures of Asia, Africa and Latin America,” Willis Barnstone, Indiana University Prentice Hall, 1999.
• “Lives in Translation: Bilingual Writers on Identity and Creativity,” Isabelle de Courtivron, Palgrave McMillion, 2003.
• "Cuerpos Errantes: Literatura Latina Y Latinoamericana En Estados Unidos", Laura R. Loustau, B. Viterbo Editora, 2002. ISBN 978-950-845-118-7
• “Leading Ladies: Mujeres En La Literatura Hispana Y En Las Artes,” Yvonne Fuentes and Margaret R. Parker, Louisiana State University Press, 2006.
• “Cultural Identity and Postmodern Writing,” (Postmodern Studies 39) Theo D'Haen Ediciones Redopi, BV Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2007.
• “Redreaming America: Toward a Bilingual American Culture,” Debra A. Castillo, State University of New York, Jan 2005.
• "The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture," Cambridge Companions to Culture, by John King.
• "US Latino Literature Today", Gabriela Baeza Ventura, University of Houston, 2004. ISBN 978-0-321-19843-3
• "Unmothered Americas: Poetry and universality", Jaime Rodriguez Matos, Digital Commons @ COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, dissertation, Faculty Advisor: Gustavo Perez-Firmat, 2005.

Web links

• Article by Braschi
• Article by Braschi

Individual evidence

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