Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Ilan Stavans
Introduction | Frederick Luis Aldama
I: Vanguard Forms and Latinx Sensibilities
Chapter 1: The Uncommon Wealth of Art: Poetic Progress as Resistance to the Commodification of Culture in United States of Banana | Madelena Gonzalez
Chapter 2: Rompiendo esquemas: Catastrophic Bravery in United States of Banana | John “Rio” Riofrio
Chapter 3: Exile and Burial of Ontological Sameness: A Dialogue between Zarathustra and Giannina | Anne Ashbaugh
Chapter 4: Yo-Yo Boing! Or Literature as a Translingual Practice | Francisco Moreno-Fernández
Chapter 5: Bilingual Big Bang: Giannina Braschi’s Trilogy Levels the Spanish-English Playing Field | Maritza Stanchich
II: Persuasive Art of Dramatic Voices
Chapter 6: Giannina and Braschi: A Polyphony of Voices | Cristina Garrigós
Chapter 7: The Poetry of Giannina Braschi: Art and Magic in Assault on Time | Laura R. Loustau
Chapter 8: The Human Barnyard: Rhetoric, Identification, and Symbolic Representation in United States of Banana | Elizabeth Lowry
Chapter 9: Gamifying World Literature: Giannina Braschi’s United States of Banana | Daniela Daniele
III: Intermedial Poetics and Radical Thinking
Chapter 10: Leaping Off the Page: Giannina Braschi’s Intermedialities | Dorian Lugo Bertrán
Chapter 11: Free-dom: United States of Banana and the Limits of Sovereignty | Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús
Chapter 12: The Holy Trinity: Money, Power, and Success in United States of Banana | Francisco José Ramos
Chapter 13: My Dinner with Giannina: Rolando Pérez Interviews Giannina Braschi
Contributors
Index