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Giannina Braschi é uma poetisa e romancista norte-americana, de origem italiana, nascida em Porto Rico.

Creditada como tendo criado o primeiro romance em Spanglish, YO-YO BOING! e autora da trilogia poética Empire of Dreams , o qual relata as experiências dos imigrantes latino-americanos nos Estados Unidos da América. "Por décadas, escritores dominicanos e porto-riquenhos têm desenvolvido uma revolução lingüística", observou The Boston Globe, e "Giannina Braschi, especialmente em seu último romance YO-YO BOING!, testemunha isso". Sua obra é uma "fusão sinergética que marca de modo decisivo as experiências vividas pelos hispânicos nos EUA".Escrito originalmente em inglês, "United States of Banana" se tornou parte importante da literatura pós 11 de setembro nas universidades. Essa obra de gênero misto virou obra de teatro na Universidade Columbia, uma séria de curtas-metragens de arte e logo será lançado como história em quadrinhos. As paródias da obra estão mudando a dinâmica entre os Estados Unidos, a Espanha, a América Latina e o Caribe, sem esquecer a crescente influência econômica da China. Braschi é "uma das vozes mais revolucionárias da literatura latino-americana da atualidade", afirmou o PEN American Center. Ela é membro do National Endowment for the Arts. Ela escreve em espanhol, "spanglish" e inglês para expressar a jornada cultural de milhões de imigrantes hispânicos nos EUA e para retratar as três opções do seu país de origem, Porto Rico: nação, colônia ou Estado soberano. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. Fevereiro 1953
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Giannina Braschi: Frases em inglês

“It’s the end of the world. I was excited by the whole situation. Well, if everybody is going to die, die hard, shit, but what do I know? Is this an atomic bomb--the end of the world--the end of the millennium? No more fear of being fired--for typos or tardiness--digressions or recessions--and what a way of being fired--bursting into flames--without two weeks notice--and without six months of unemployment--and without sick leave, vacation, or comp time--without a word of what was to come--on a glorious morning--when nature ran indifferent to the course of man--there came a point when that sunny sky turned into a hellhole of a night—with papers, computers, windows, bricks, bodies falling, and people running and screaming…”

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Giannina Braschi livro United States of Banana

United States of Banana (2011)

“Originality is going back to the place where you were what you were—and finding an empty chair. Would you gladly sit on it? No, thank you. It is empty for a reason. That’s where my ass was. Not where my head is now.”

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United States of Banana (2011)

“I want to take poetry to walk other genres. I want poetry to walk through other genres. When I started writing, this was my main concern: get out of poetry. Let poetry walk the streets of New York. Make her cosmopolitan. See the world. Not in these estrofas, not in these stanzas, which are camisas de fuerza. I have to get out of poetry. I have to do what James Joyce did to the novel: he took the novel out of the novel…”

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On how she hopes to change poetry by bringing it towards visual art in “A Graphic Revolution Talking Poetry & Politics with Giannina Braschi” https://www.academia.edu/36916781/A_Graphic_Revolution_Talking_Poetry_and_Politics_with_Giannina_Braschi in Chiricú Journal (2018)

“Imagine, ever since I was a little girl in Puerto Rico, I heard, oh, we don’t want to be like Haiti, we don’t want to be like Cuba. The fear was with being poor like Haiti and being poor like Cuba, and that’s why Puerto Rico never became free because it was afraid of being poor…”

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On Puerto Rico in “A Graphic Revolution Talking Poetry & Politics with Giannina Braschi” https://www.academia.edu/36916781/A_Graphic_Revolution_Talking_Poetry_and_Politics_with_Giannina_Braschi in Chiricú Journal (2018)

“Tragedy is all about losing. And humor is all about gaining perspective. Humour returns our gladness. And with gladness comes generosity. Humor returns us to the light and makes us light—it kills grudges, buries bodies–buries revenge—buries blame and guilt—fear and dread. Laughter, like hiccups and sneezes and farts and burps, relieves us of severity.”

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On the healing effects of humor in “52 WEEKS / 52 INTERVIEWS: WEEK 34: GIANNINA BRASCHI” http://monkeybicycle.net/52-weeks-52-interviews-week-34-giannina-braschi/ (Monkey Bicycle)

“Metaphors are the beginning of the democratic system of envy. They look for what is dissimilar and try to make it similar. Everything that is similar cuts the edge of what is unique.”

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