La Biblioteca del Congresso degli Stati Uniti definisce le opere di Braschi come classici dell'era postmoderna. È conosciuta per essere attiva sui vari fronti: narrativa, poesia, teatro e saggistica. Secondo l'organizzazione letteraria PEN, Braschi è una delle autrici più importanti e rivoluzionarie dell'America Latina della sua generazione.
Attività È autrice di cinque raccolte di poesie, del poema in prosa Empire of Dreams (1994) e soprattutto di Yo-Yo Boing! (1998), il primo romanzo scritto in spanglish, una lingua che nasce dal processo di alternanza di codice linguistico tra spagnolo e inglese, in particolare tra i parlanti messicani, portoricani e cubani negli Stati Uniti.
Nel 2011 l'autrice ha pubblicato il romanzo Stati Uniti di Banana (United States of Banana): la vastità e complessità della sua struttura, la narrazione surreale e i temi che tratta lo hanno portato a essere definito un esempio di romanzo post-moderno e post-coloniale che può essere paragonato alle opere di David Foster Wallace e Roberto Bolano, e alle correnti del realismo isterico e dell'Avantpop.
Opere Asalto al tiempo, Ambitos Literarios, Barcelona, 1980. La comedia profana, Anthropos Editorial del hombre, Barcelona, 1985. Libro de payasos y bufones, Grafica Uno, Giorgio Upiglio, Milano, 1987. El imperio de los suenos, Anthropos Editorial del hombre, Barcelona, 1988. Empire of dreams/L'impero dei sogni, introduction by Alicia Ostriker, Yale University Press, New Haven/London, 1994; AmazonCrossing, 2011. Yo-Yo Boing!, in Latin American Literary Review, Pittsburgh, 1998; AmazonCrossing, 2011. El imperio de los sueños/L'impero dei sogni, Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, 2000. Carne e Osso, in Daniela Daniele (a cura di), Giannina Braschi, Undici settembre: Contro-narrazioni americane, Einaudi Tascabili, 2003. United States of Banana, AmazonCrossing, 2011. Putinoika, Brown Ink, Flowersong, 2024.
Premi Fray Luis de León Medal for Ibero-American Poetry, 2025. Angela Y Davis Award, American Studies Association 2024. North American Academy of the Spanish Language 2022. Premio Cambio 16, Madrid. Danforth Scholarship, 1978-1980 Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1980 Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, 1988 Reed Foundation/InterAmericas, 1994 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1997 El Diario La Prensa's Outstanding Latinos of 1998 PEN American Center's Open Book Award, 1999 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 2000
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(2014) Daniele, Daniela. “Giannina Braschi: The Cartoon Art of September 11th”. Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi. U Pittsburgh. (2020) Delgado, Jose. A. “‘La libertad no es una opción, es un derecho’: La autora puertorriqueña aboga por que la Isla tenga libertad y voz independiente”. El Nuevo Dia. (September 24, 2012) Diaz, Alfonso. “Giannina Braschi lanza United States of Banana”, NTN24: Últimas Noticias de América y el Mundo. (November 24, 2011) Felix, Juan Pablo. “United States of Banana: A Postcolonial Dramatic Fiction”. Columbia’s Academic Commons. Columbia University. (2015) Gonzalez, Madelena. “The Uncommon Wealth of Art: Poetic Progress as Resistance to the Commodification of Culture in United States of Banana.” Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi. U Pittsburgh. (2020) Gonzalez, Madelena. "United States of Banana (2011), Elizabeth Costello (2003) and Fury (2001): Portrait of the Writer as the ‘Bad Subject’ of Globalisation." Études britanniques contemporaines. (2014) Hitchcock, Peter. "Novelization in Decolonization, or Postcolonialism Reconsidered." Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization. Ferdinand, Simon, Villaescusa-Illán, Irene, Peeren, Esther, eds. Palgrave Macmillan. (2019) Loingsigh, Aedin Ni. “Rewriting and Original Writing: Culture Clashes, Trauma and Emerging Discourses in Giannina Braschi's United States of Banana.” Rewriting in the 20th-21st Centuries: Aesthetic Choice or Political Act? Epinoux, Estelle and Martinière, Nathalie, eds. Paris: M. Houdiard. (2015) Lowry, Elizabeth. "The Human Barnyard: Rhetoric, Identification, and Symbolic Representation in Giannina Braschi’s United States of Banana." Representing 9/11: Trauma, Ideology, and Nationalism in Literature, Film, and Television. Petrovic, Paul, ed. Rowman & Littlefield. (2015) Lugo-Bertrán, Dorian. “Leaping Off the Page: Giannina Braschi’s Intermedialities”. Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi. U Pittsburgh. (2020) Mendoza-de Jesús, Ronald. “Free-dom: United States of Banana and the Limits of Sovereignty” (Jacques Derrida and Giannina Braschi). Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi. U Pittsburgh. (2020) Negron- Almodovar, Coral N. "Reclamo de la libertad desde las letras: Giannina Braschi disfruta del rumbo que ha tomado su novela United States of Banana (desde el libro, al teatro y al comic)". El Nuevo Dia. (July 8, 2015). Pérez-Duthie, Juan Carlos. “Autora busca la libertad en la palabra.” Sun Sentinel. 2011. Nesta, Nicola, Code-switching e identità: il caso dello Spanglish e la narrativa bilingue di Giannina Braschi. Pérez, Rolando. "The Bilingualisms of Latino/a Literatures" Ilan Stavans, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies. (2020) Perez, Rolando. “Liberation of People and Objects, An Interview”. Poets, Philosophers, Lovers. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2020 Perisic, Alexandra. Precarious Crossings: Immigration, Neoliberalism, and the Atlantic. The Ohio State University Press. (2019) Popescu, Maria-Irina. "Reimagining Traitors: Pearl Abraham's American Taliban and the Case of John Walker Lindh." Journal of American Studies 53.3. (2019) Ramos, Francisco José. “The Holy Trinity: Money, Power, and Success in United States of Banana.” Poets, Philosophers, Lovers. U Pittsburgh. (2020) Riofrio, John. "Falling for debt: Giannina Braschi, the Latinx Avant-garde, and Financial Terrorism in the United States of Banana." Latino Studies 18.1. (2020) Riofrio, John. “Rompiendo Esquemas: Catastrophic Bravery in United States of Banana”. Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi. U Pittsburgh. (2020) Roldán Soto, Camile. “Giannina Braschi, Profeta literaria de su tierra: Para la escritora, sus obras han pasado a ser, sin buscarlo, una especie de oráculo de Puerto Rico”. El Nuevo Dia. (July 24, 2018) Smith, Amanda M. and Sheeran, Amy. “United States of Banana, A Graphic Novel by Joakim Lindengren and Giannina Braschi”. The Ohio State University Press. (2021) Smith, Amanda M. and Sheeran, Amy. "A Graphic Revolution: Talking Poetry and Politics with Giannina Braschi." Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literature, Arts, and Culture, 2.2. (2018) Soto, Natasha. “Hispanic Heritage Month: Recommending Female Latin American Authors”. New York Public Library. (2018) Stanchich, Maritza. “Bilingual Big Bang: Giannina Braschi’s Trilogy Levels the Spanish-English Playing Field”. Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi. U Pittsburgh. (2020) Waldron, John V. Review of Estados Unidos de Banana. Trad. Manuel Broncano. Feministas Unidas. (2018) Youker, Timothy E. "War and Peace and Ubu: Colonialism, the Exception, and Jarry's Legacy." Criticism 57.4. (2015) Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language, Ilan Stavans, ISBN 0060087765. Quando il contagio viene da sé: Lo spanglish e la mutabilità del codice linguistico, Ana Pano. Giannina Braschi's Yo-Yo Boing!, Doris Sommer, Harvard University, Latin American Literary Review Press, 1998.
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