Giannina Braschi
| Giannina Braschi | |
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| Born |
February 5, 1953 San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Occupation | Poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist |
| Nationality | Puerto Rican, American |
| Period | 1981–present |
| Genre | Poetry, prose poetry, fiction, drama, novel, epic poetry |
| Subject | Immigration, independence, terrorism, inspiration, Latin America, Puerto Rico, revolution, war, love, American imperialism, New York, democracy, September 11 attacks |
| Literary movement | Postmodernism, postcolonialism, spoken word, nuyorican, post-boom, McOndo |
| Notable works | Yo-Yo Boing!; Braschi's Empire of Dreams; United States of Banana |
| Notable awards | PEN/Open Book Award; National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Danforth and Ford Foundation fellowships |
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Giannina Braschi (born February 5, 1953) is a Puerto Rican writer. She is credited with writing the first Spanglish novel Yo-Yo Boing! (1998), the post-modern poetry trilogy Empire of Dreams (Yale, 1994) and the philosophical fiction United States of Banana (AmazonCrossing, 2011), which chronicles the Latin American immigrants' experiences in the United States. "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". She is considered an influential and revolutionary voice in contemporary Latin American literature. Her work has been described as a "synergetic fusion that marks in a determinant fashion the lived experiences of U.S. Hispanics." Written in English, Spanglish, and Spanish, Braschi's work seeks to capture the cultural experience of the 50 million Hispanics in the United States and also seeks to explore the three political options of Puerto Rico: Nation, Colony or Statehood. On the subject of the Island's lack of sovereignty, Braschi stated, "Liberty is not an option — it is a human right."
In the 1970s, Giannina Braschi was a student of literature in Madrid, Rome, Paris and London, before she settled in New York City. She obtained a PhD in Hispanic Literatures (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1980) and has taught at Rutgers University, City University of New York, and Colgate University, where she served as a Distinguished Chair of Creative Writing (1997). She was a foreign correspondent for Grazie magazine (2001–2002).
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