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- Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi
- Book
- 2020
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Latinx and Latin American Profiles
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Foreword by Ilan Stavans
- pp. xi-xii
- Poets, Philosophers, Lovers
- Introduction
- pp. 3-20
- I. Vanguard Forms and Latinx Sensibilities
- II. Persuasive Art of Dramatic Voices
- III. Intermedial Poetics and Radical Thinking
- Contributors
- pp. 181-184
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822987598
Related ISBN(s)
9780822946182
MARC Record
OCLC
1204316487
Pages
208
Launched on MUSE
2020-11-13
Language
English
Open Access
No